Study for 'Hit': Composition

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Hit': Composition
Date: c.1892
Media: Pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions: 15.6 x 11.7 cm
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Picture credit: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Reference number: 04/759
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower centre "No 111" encircled, in pen and ink. Inscribed lower right "'Hit' 1893" in pencil.

Description

Traced study for the composition of the painting 'Hit' (c.1893, private collection). Although sketchy, this tracing is compositionally close to the finished painting. The drawing is squared up. 

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 

Bibliography

• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.172 (listed under catalogue number 374)