Study for an Illustration for 'Dalziel's Bible Gallery': 'Samson at the Mill'

Drawing details

Title: Study for an Illustration for 'Dalziel's Bible Gallery': 'Samson at the Mill'
Date: 1863-64
Media: Pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions: 18.4 x 14.7 cm
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Picture credit: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Reference number: 04/950
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "No. 134" in pen and ink.

Interpretation

This illustration depicts Samson, blinded and weak, being forced to grind the mill in the prison at Gaza (Judges, chapter 16).

Description

Traced study for the composition of the illustration 'Samson at the Mill', 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