Study of a Girl

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Drawing details

Title: Study of a Girl
Date: 1851
Media: Pencil on white paper
Dimensions: 14.6 x 21.5 cm
Location: Victoria and Albert Museum
Picture credit: By Courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Reference number: 425-1897 verso
Inscriptions: Inscribed upper right "LHS".

Description

Left of sheet: full-length study of a girl cradling a doll. Upper right of sheet: rough drapery study. 

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 (Fine Art Society reference number Q80, originally priced at ú15:15:0); purchased from the Fine Art Society for ú14:2:0 (including a 10% discount) by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1896 

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