Title:
On the Nile, 1868
Maker:
Leighton, Frederic, Baron; painter; British artist, 1830-1896
Category:
painting
Name:
painting
Date:
1868-10-27 — 1868-11-03
School/Style:
British
Technique:
painting (image-making)
Material(s):
oil paint; medium
canvas; support
Technique
Description:
oil on canvas
Dimension(s):
height, 26.9, cm
width, 41.5, cm
Acquisition:
bought; 1979; Fine Art Society
Provenance:
The artist, his sale, Christie's, 11 July 1896 (one of lot 174, 225, or 239-41); ?Spink, 1946; Fine Art Society 1978
Acquisition Credit:
From the Fairhaven Fund.
Exhibition(s):
Visions of the Ottoman Empire. 1994-08-17 - 1994-11-15
Venue: Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Frederic, Lord Leighton, P.R.A.. 1996-01-18 - 1996-03-31
Venue: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Catalogue number: 48
Egypt and the British.
Venue: Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton
Notes: Brighton Festival
Catalogue number: 183
Documentation:
Barrington, Russell, Mrs. 1906. The Life, Letters and work of Frederick Leighton.
2 vols.
Newall, Christopher. 1990. The Art of Lord Leighton.Oxford: p. 62-63
Reproduced (colour) pl.38
Kilinsky, Karl. Leighton on the Nile.
Source Title: Burlington Magazine CXLV (September-2003)
p. 646-648
Reproduced (colour)
Accession:
Object Number: PD.5-1979
(Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(record id: 3577; input: 2000-04-03; modified: 2016-07-01)
Permanent
Identifier:
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