Study for an Illustration for 'Dalziel's Bible Gallery': 'Abraham and the Angel'

Drawing details

Title: Study for an Illustration for 'Dalziel's Bible Gallery': 'Abraham and the Angel'
Date: 1863-64
Media: Pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions: 19.6 x 14.1 cm
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Picture credit: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Reference number: 04/957
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "No. 64" in pen and ink.

Interpretation

This illustration depicts an angel on the right showing an old man a view through a window and is was one of Leighton's illustrations for the Dalziel brothers' project to produce an illustrated bible, eventually published in 1881 in the form of the 'Dalziel's Bible Gallery'.

Description

Traced study for the composition of the illustration 'Abraham and the Angel', for 'Dalziel's Bible Gallery' (1862-64, published 1881). 

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