Study for the Tomb of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Elevations

Drawing details

Title: Study for the Tomb of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Elevations
Date: 1861
Media: Pencil and watercolour on white paper
Dimensions: 27.9 x 38.1 cm
Location: Victoria and Albert Museum
Picture credit: By Courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Reference number: E.3810-1910
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "design for Mrs. Brownings tomb" and "Scala - la sesta parte", in pencil, which,This translates as "Scale - the sixth part", presumably meaning that the scale is one sixth. Inscribed centre right "6 2/3 [illegible", in pencil. I

Interpretation

The Tomb of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (poet, 1806-1861) is in the English cemetery in Piazzale Donatello in Florence

Description

Upper two thirds of sheet: design drawing showing the elevation of one fatade of the tomb of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1861, Florence). Lower third of sheet: design drawing showing a section through a wall of the tomb. 

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

• 'Exhibition of Works by the Late Lord Leighton of Stretton President of the Royal Academy: Winter Exhibition', Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1897, p.43 catalogue number 226(2)
• Staley, Edgcumbe, 'Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A.', The Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd., London, 1906, p.227 

Exhibition history

• 04 January 1897 to 13 March 1897, 'Exhibition of Works by the Late Lord Leighton of Stretton President of the Royal Academy: Winter Exhibition', Royal Academy of Arts, London, catalogue number 226(2)