Study for 'Moorish Garden: A Dream of Granada': Female Child

Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Moorish Garden: A Dream of Granada': Female Child
Date: c.1872
Media: Black chalk on tracing paper
Dimensions: 52.2 x 31.7 cm
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Picture credit: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Reference number: 04/699
Inscriptions: Inscribed upper left "No. 67" in pen and ink. Inscribed lower centre "No. 124".

Interpretation

The background of this picture is a copy of Leighton's painting 'Garden of Generalife, Granada' (c.1873, private collection).

Description

Full-length outline study of the female child in the painting 'Moorish Garden: A Dream of Granada.' (c.1874, Teacher's College, Armidale, Australia). 

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