Sketchbook including a Study of the Elgin Marbles

Drawing details

Title: Sketchbook including a Study of the Elgin Marbles
Date: 1875-85
Media: Pencil on white paper, leather binding
Dimensions: 15.2 cm x 9.8 cm cm
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Reference number: 06/1923
Inscriptions: Inscriptions include: "comp[osition] of Clytem[nestra] analyse wind or no wind? Steps going up or down? Contrast between internal trepidation and absolute surroundings of calm, agitation in internal lines of drapery - simple outer lines."; "Sunlight

Interpretation

The Ormonds note that in this notebook Leighton: "made endless studies of females undressing - a whole repertoire of experimental forms, some of them relating to another picture of a partially draped figure, Iostephane, exhibited in 1880." [Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.128]

Description

Includes the following studies: f.1r - study of flowers; f.13v - study of Greek vases; f.14r - study of vases; f.14v - study of the Elgin Marbles; f.15r - study of objects; f.18v - study of flowing drapery; etc. 

 

Bibliography

• Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p. 89, 95, 128