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Biographer of Robert Browning, and essayist. Miss Alexandra Leighton; born in St Petersburg, she was educated in western Europe; from 1844 lived in London; in 1857 married Sutherland G. G. Orr (d. 1858); 1857-8 lived in India; from 1858 lived in Britain, from 1869 in London. Sister of Frederic, Lord Leighton, P.R.A. (1830-96).
Born: 1827
Gender: Female
Lord Leighton PRA
Sketch model for the Dragon in the painting 'Perseus and Andromeda', ca.1890
Plaster
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Reclining male nude, 1850s?
Black chalk on light grey laid paper
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Cymon, ca. 1884
Plaster
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Tracing of two women with infants
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Tracing of a chandelier and decorative details, for 'Interior of the Grand Mosque of Damascus', c. 1873-5
Pen and black ink, over pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Tracing of architectural details relating to 'Interior of the Grand Mosque of Damascus'
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'Memories', by ca. 1883
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing, probably for an illustration
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing, probably for an illustration
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for a decorative design, ca. 1871
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing of the head of a girl
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for a portrait, possibly after a portrait of Michelangelo
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for a frieze of birds for the staircase of 44 Belgrave Square, c. 1870
Pencil and watercolour on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Tracing for the decoration of the staircase at 44 Belgrave Square, ca. 1869
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'Samson and Delilah'
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Tracing of decorative drapery for an unidentified composition
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for 'Summer Moon', by ca. 1872
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for a half length painting of a standing girl
Black chalk on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Tracing of the central group of female figures for 'The Arts of Industry as Applied to Peace', by ca. 1884
Pencil and white paint on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for the whole composition of 'The Arts of Industry as Applied to Peace', by ca. 1884
Pencil on tracing paper (squared up in pen and red ink over pencil)
Lord Leighton PRA
Tracing of a group of figures for 'The Arts of Industry as Applied to Peace', by ca. 1884
Pencil and white paint on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for 'Michelangelo Nursing his Dying Servant', by ca. 1862
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for 'Eucharis', by ca. 1863
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for 'A Condottiere', by ca. 1872
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing, probably for 'Whispers', probably ca. 1881
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for 'An Idyll', by ca. 1880-1
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'Lachrymae', by ca. 1895
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'Cymon and Iphigenia', by 1884
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'The Fisherman and the Syren: From a Ballad by Goethe', ca. 1856-8
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'David - Oh that I had the wings of a dove! For then I would fly away and be at rest', 1865
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for 'The Star of Bethlehem', 1862
Black and white chalk on tracing paper
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Tracing for 'The Sluggard', by 1885
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Tracing for 'An Athlete Wrestling with a Python'
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracings of figures for 'The Syracusan Bride', by 1886-8
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracings of figures for 'The Syracusan Bride', by 1886-8
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing of a standing female figure
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing of figures for 'The Daphnephoria', by ca. 1874-6
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing of figures for 'The Daphnephoria', by ca. 1874-6
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for 'Captive Andromache', by 1886-8
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for 'Captive Andromache', by 1886-8
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for 'Captive Andromache', ca. 1886-8
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for 'The Family of Darius before Alexander'
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Squared up tracing for 'The Feigned Death of Juliet', by 1858
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'Elijah in the Wilderness', by ca. 1878
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared-up tracing for 'The Arts of Industry as Applied to War', by 1878-80
Pencil on tracing paper (and wash?)
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Tracing for a portrait of a lady
Black chalk on tracing paper
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Tracing for the figure of Erato (Marquand's Music Room), by ca. 1886
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for a female head, probably for 'The Jealousy of Simoetha the Sorceress', 1880s
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for 'The Dying Message', by October 1862
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Tracing for 'Drifting Away', by June 1863
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Squared up tracing for 'Wedded', by ca. 1881-2
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Squared up tracing for 'Kittens', by ca. 1883
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'The Vestal', by ca. 1883
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'Paolo and Francesca', by 1860-1
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for 'Greek Girl Dancing', by ca. 1867
Pencil with pen and black ink on brown tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for 'Orpheus and Eurydice', by ca. 1864
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'A Widow's Prayer', ca. 1860s
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for an illustration, probably to Romola, 1862-3
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for 'The Visible Madonna', 1862-3
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'Jezebel and Ahab', by ca. 1862-3
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing of a man's head in profile
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing of a woman's head in profile
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'Helios and Rhodos', by 1868-9
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for the reverse of the Queen Victoria Jubilee Medal, by 1887
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for Marquand's Music Room, by 1887
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for the figure of Terpsichore (Marquand's Music Room ceiling), by ca. 1886
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for the figure of Erato (Marquand's Music Room ceiling), by ca. 1886
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'Weaving the Wreath', by 1872
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for 'The Painter's Honeymoon', by ca. 1864
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'Jonathan's Token to David', by ca. 1868
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Tracing for 'The Daphnephoria', by 1874-6
Pencil and white paint on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for 'The Dance', by ca. 1881-3
Pencil on tracing paper (squared up in red ink)
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Tracing for the Wise and Foolish Virgins, by 1864
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus', by 1868
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'The Syracusan Bride', by 1865-6
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Unfinished tracing for 'The Daphnephoria', by 1874-6
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Tracings of a figure for 'The Daphnephoria', by 1874-6
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Tracing for 'A Bacchante', by ca. 1892
Black chalk on tracing paper
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Tracing for 'At the Fountain', by ca. 1892
Black chalk on tracing paper
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Tracing for 'Cain and Abel', 1863-4
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Tracing for 'The Great God Pan', 1860
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for 'Eliezer and Rebekah', Probably 1860s
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for 'The First Kiss', 1862
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Tracing for 'The Escaped Prisoner', 1862
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for 'You didn't think it was so pretty, did you', 1862
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for 'A Supper in the Rucellai Gardens', 1862
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for 'Coming Home', 1862
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Tracing for 'Will his Eyes Open?', 1862
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Tracing for 'A Florentine Joke', 1862
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Tracing for 'But you will help me?', 1862
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Lord Leighton PRA
Tracing for a vignette illustration for Romola, 1862
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for 'Father, I will be guided', 1862
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Tracing for 'Tessa at Home', 1862
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Tracing for 'Niccolò at Work', 1862
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Tracing for 'The Peasants' Fair', 1862
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for 'Mona Brigida's Conversion', 1862
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for a portrait of May Sartoris, by 1875
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Sketch model of Perseus and Pegasus for the painting 'Perseus and Andromeda', ca. 1890
Plaster
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Tracing for 'Moses Viewing the Promised Land', 1863-4
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Tracings for figures in 'Captive Andromache', by ca. 1886-8
Black chalk on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Tracing for 'The Blind Scholar and his Daughter', 1862
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Tracing for 'Suppose you let me look at myself', 1862
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Tracing for 'Escaped', by 1862-3
Pencil on tracing paper
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Tracing for 'The Painted Record', by 1862
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for 'The Return of Persephone', by ca. 1890-1
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for 'The Garden of the Hesperides', ca. 1892
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for 'Dante in Exile', by 1864
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for 'Perseus on Pegasus Hastening to the Rescue of Andromeda', by ca. 1895-6
Black chalk on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for 'The Hit', by ca. 1893
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Tracing for 'The Last Watch of Hero', by ca. 1887
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'The Bracelet', by ca. 1894
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'Fatidica', by ca. 1893-4
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'Solitude', by ca. 1890
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'Flaming June', by ca. 1895
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'Flaming June', by ca. 1895
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'Summer Slumber', 1894
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Lord Leighton PRA
Tracing for 'Perseus and Andromeda', by ca. 1891
Black chalk on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for 'Perseus and Andromeda', by ca. 1891
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for a composition with a nude male figure, probably 1860s
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up tracing for 'Greek Girls Playing at Ball', by 1888-1889
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Squared up drawing for 'Daedalus and Icarus', ca. 1869
Pencil on tracing paper
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Squared up tracing for 'The Antique Juggling Girl', by ca. 1873
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Tracing for 'Captive Andromache', by ca. 1886-8
Pencil on tracing paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Study of a standing female nude, probably for 'Venus and Cupid', probably by ca. 1856
Black chalk with white paint highlights on grey wove paper
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Study of a draped arm, 1860s?
Black chalk and white paint (?) on blue/grey laid paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Study for 'Perseus and Andromeda', ca. 1891
Black and white chalk on brown wove paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Study of a boy's head for 'Cimabue' (recto) and study of a woman with a guitar (verso), probably 1853
Buff wove paper
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Study of a draped, seated female figure for 'Music', by 1883-5
Black and white chalk on brown laid paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Head and shoulders of a man, possibly relating to 'Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna'
Watercolour and gouache over black chalk on blue wove paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Study of a standing male nude, 1850s?
Pencil on cream wove paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Study of a standing male nude drawn from memory
Pencil on white wove paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Half-length study of a female nude for the figure of Eurydice in 'The Triumph of Music'
Red chalk on brown/grey laid paper
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Studies of a seated child
Pencil on cream wove paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Standing male nude in profile, 1850s?
Pencil on cream wove paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Life drawing of a male nude sitting on a stool
Black chalk on grey laid paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Nude study for Romeo and Juliet in 'The Reconciliation of the Montagues and the Capulets', ca. 1854
Black chalk with highlights in white paint on buff wove paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Half-length drawing of a boy, 1850s?
Black chalk and white lead paint (slightly oxidised) on blue/grey wove paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Life drawing of a reclining male nude, late 1840s / early 1850s?
Black chalk on buff laid paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Life drawing of a standing male nude
Black chalk on grey laid paper
Lord Leighton PRA
A half-reclining male nude, 1861
Black chalk on light green toned laid paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Life drawings of a seated male nude
Black and red chalk and pencil on cream laid paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Life drawing of a standing male nude leaning over to the left
Black chalk on light grey laid paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Sketch model for the figure of Andromeda in 'Perseus and Andromeda', ca. 1890
Plaster with bronze coloured paint
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Sketch model for a group of three figures in 'The Daphnephoria', ca. 1873
Plaster with bronze coloured paint
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Sketch model for figure holding tripod incense burner in 'The Daphnephoria', ca. 1873
Bronze
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Sketch model for figure holding lyre in 'The Daphnephoria', ca. 1891
Painted plaster
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The Sluggard, 1885
Plaster
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Study of an arm
Black chalk and white paint on blue wove paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Studies of a leg and hands for 'Gehazi dismissed by the prophet Elisha', by 1858
Black and white chalk on buff laid paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Nude study of a woman with a lute, 1853
Pencil on cream wove paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Study for the figure of Dante in 'Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna', by 1853-4
Pencil on cream wove paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Study for Iphigenia
Bronze
Lord Leighton PRA
Figure studies, possibly relating to 'Flaming June', 1890s
Black and white chalk on brown wove paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Standing female nude - for 'Venus and Cupid', ca. 1856
Black chalk and white lead paint on brown wove paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Drapery studies for 'Perseus on Pegasus Hastening to the Rescue of Andromeda', ca. 1895-6
Black and white chalk on brown wove paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Study for a portrait of Adrian Somerset Marryat, by 1851-2
Black and white chalk on brown wove paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Studies of a girl's head and hands for 'Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna', by 1854-5
Buff wove paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Study of a standing female nude
Black and white chalk on blue wove paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Life drawing of a male nude seen from the back, early 1850s?
Red chalk on cream laid paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Studies for the reverse of the Jubilee Medal, by 1887
Black and white chalk on brown laid paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Two studies for the reverse of the Jubilee Medal, by 1887
Black and white chalk on brown laid paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Life drawing of a seated male nude seen from the back
Black chalk on cream laid paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Study of drapery for 'A Sibyl', c. 1889
Black and white chalk on brown wove paper
Lord Leighton PRA
Sketch model for group of figure in the painting 'The Garden of Hesperides', 1892
Plaster
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Life drawing of a standing male nude in profile
Black chalk on cream laid paper