Sketchbook including Early Figure Drawings

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Painting details

Title: Sketchbook including Early Figure Drawings
Date: c.1845
Media: Pencil, watercolour and ink on white paper. Bound in brown cloth.
Dimensions: 13.8 x 22.5 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Interpretation

Leighton worked in this sketchbook as a child of about 14 or 15 years old. In a short biography published soon after Leighton's death, George C. Williamson explains that as a child Leighton was 'a clever sketcher, constantly illustrating in his sketch-book [sic] the stories that took his attention, and doing them with a minuteness of detail and a fineness of stroke which were extraordinary in one so young.' [Williamson, George C. 'Frederic Lord Leighton' George Bell & Sons, 1902, p.2]

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Description

Pocket sketchbook, with pencil holder. Pencil now missing.

Provenance

Collection of Coghlan Briscoe; presented to Leighton House Museum by Briscoe in 1930

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