Frederic, Lord Leighton, PRA, RWS

1830-1896

Figure Studies for George Eliot's "Romola"

Ref: 1086

Black and white chalk on blue paper, 20.5 by 28 cm

Provenance: with Julian Hartnoll

Literature: Russell Barrington, The life, letters and work of Frederick Leighton, London, 1906, plate 62.18

 

A study by Leighton for his set of illustrations to George Eliot's Romola, set in fifteenth century Florence and first published in installments in Cornhill Magazine in 1862 and 1863.

 

 

 

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