Study for an Illustration for 'Romola': Vignette to Chapter XXI

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Drawing details

Title: Study for an Illustration for 'Romola': Vignette to Chapter XXI
Date: c.1862
Media: Pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 cm
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Picture credit: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Reference number: 04/1044
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "No 28b" in pen and ink.

Description

Traced study for the composition of a vignette or initial letter illustration to Chapter XXI, Book II, ('Florence Expects a Guest') for 'Romola' (first published in parts in the 'Cornhill Magazine' July 1862 to August 1863). This tracing, although reversed, is very similar to the finished illustration. 

Provenance

Bequeathed by the artist to his sisters, Mrs. Augusta Matthews (nTe Augusta Neunburg Leighton, 1835-1919) and Mrs. Alexandra Orr (nTe Alexandra Leighton, 1828-1903); presented to the Royal Academy of Arts, London by Matthews and Orr in 1896 

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