'The Echoes of Hellas'

Painting details

Title: 'The Echoes of Hellas'
Date: c.1882
Media: Watercolour on white paper
Dimensions: 34.4 x 27.1 cm
Location: Untraced
Picture credit: Courtesy of Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (illustrated from Barrington, Mrs. Russell, 'The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic, Lord Leighton', George Allen, London, 1906, volume I, opposite p.241)

Drawings related to 'The Echoes of Hellas'

Description

Study for the composition of the design 'The Echoes of Hellas' (c.1882, untraced).

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 in 1896; untraced

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