Study for the 'Royal Academy Jubilee Address': Composition

Drawing details

Title: Study for the 'Royal Academy Jubilee Address': Composition
Date: 1887
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 34.6 x 30.8 cm
Location: Victoria and Albert Museum
Picture credit: By Courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Reference number: E.1861-1910
Inscriptions: Inscribed on reverse of mount, lower left "Sketch for the address from the Royal Academy / to H. M The Queen on the 50th anniversary / of her accession to the throne." in pencil.

Description

Study for the composition of the design for the cover of the 'Royal Academy Jubilee Address' to Queen Victoria (1887, Royal Collection). Lower left of sheet: sketch for the decorative scroll and plinth seen to the lower left of the composition. 

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); purchased by the Fine Art Society; one of 55 drawings purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum from the Fine Art Society for a total of ú135:18:0 (including a 10% discount) in 1896 

Bibliography

• Staley, Edgcumbe, 'Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A.', The Walter Scott Publishing Company, London, 1906, p.227-228