Study for an Illustration for 'Romola': 'The Painted Record'

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Drawing details

Title: Study for an Illustration for 'Romola': 'The Painted Record'
Date: c.1862
Media: Pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions: 16.4 x 10.8 cm
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Picture credit: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Reference number: 04/933
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "No. 36" in pen and ink.

Interpretation

This study depicts the characters Romola and Piero di Cosimo discussing a portrait.

Description

Traced study for the illustration 'The Painted Record', Chapter XVIII, for 'Romola' (1862-63). Apart from being reversed this tracing is identical in composition 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