Drawings and Sketches by Frederic, Lord Leighton, PRA RWS 1830-1896

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Finished Drawings Byzantine Well-head Portrait of Arthur Schopenhauer Studies and Preparatory Sketches And the Sea gave up the dead which were in it Two chalk sketches of a bearded man Study for After Vespers The Arts of Peace and War Man in Renaissance Costume The Bath of Venus First study Drapery study Nude figure study Captive Andromache Study of a Headdress and a Sitting Figure Study of a Drapery at Waist Drapery Study of a Standing Figure Drapery Study Drapery Study Classical Frieze Study (Wedding Feast of Pelleias and Thetis) David Preparatory sketch (undraped figure) Preparatory sketch (draped figure with landscape background) Flaming June “First sketch” (three seated nudes) Perseus and Andromeda Nude study of Andromeda Salome Dancing A Cymbal Player, a study; for the musician in the painting Solitude First study Drapery study Nude figure study Clothed figure study Illustrations for George Eliot's Romola Studies of two women; a study for the illustration Tessa at Home Study of a young woman seated on the ground and wearing a shawl round her shoulders and head for the illustration Under the Plane Tree

The Arts of Industry as Applied to War (mural) Studies of male figures in medieval dress for the mural The Daphnephoria Study of a woman and child; for the painting Cymon and Iphiginia Four studies of a reclining draped female figure; for a drawing related to the painting The Dance (Decorative frieze) Study of two draped female figures, the girl in the foreground seen sideways on with her arms extended, the girl behind seen facing the spectator Study of two standing draped female figures, the adult girl standing behind with her right arm across the shoulder of a young girl Study of two draped female figures, the central figure of the group seated on the ground and resting on her right arm, the other figure lying on her left side with her head raised Daphenphoria Chalk sketch of drapery for female figure Elijah Multiple chalk sketches of angels and other figures Music (painted frieze) Study of three standing draped female figures, the right hand figure holding an open song book Lieder ohne Worte Study Miscellaneous Lugliano Alla Villa [?] Ponte Vecchio Study of a Tree, Verona Study of a Lemon Tree Study of berries and leaves Three Figure Studies Design for a theatrical tableaux Servant holding a dish Sketch of a man seated on a chair Sketch of seated and standing female nude Clasped hands Right hand

Discussion

• "A Victorian Master: The Drawings of Frederic, Lord Leighton" (exhibition review)

Resources outside the Victoran Web

• Drawings by Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-1986)

An online catalogue based at the Leighton House Museum of the artist's drawings — a large project funded by the Mellon Centre for British Art and the Heritage Lottery Fund

• Leighton House Conference on Late-Victorian Drawings (February 2007)

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