Sketchbook

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Painting details

Title: Sketchbook
Date: 1868-69
Media: Pencil on white paper, leather binding
Dimensions: 11.2 x 15.7 cm
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London

Interpretation

The Ormonds note that in this notebook Leighton made a list of "classical subjects, many of which he was later to paint: Andromache, Nausicaa, Cleoboline, Niobe and Persephon"'. [Ormond, LeonTe and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975 p.89]

Drawings related to Sketchbook

Description

Includes the following studies: f.2v - study of a landscape; f.3v - study of figures; f.10v - study of landscape and trees; f.14v - study of a wooded landscape; f.15v - study of a nude male; etc.

Provenance

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