Five drawings of heads
Draughtsman: Leighton, Frederic, Baron
Height: 430 mm
Width: 287 mm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1951) by Martineau, Helen
Fomerly used as the backing for PD.4-1951A, but from the relatively unsophisticated style of the drawings dateable to the early 1850s. There are five drawings of heads: one of an elderly man with side-whiskers, one of a younger man with an aquiline profile (Leighton's father?), a very rough caricature of a girl, another profile of a girl (perhaps the artist's sister Alexandra), and on the right the profile on an obese, hooded man.
Support composed of card ( thick buff)
Drawing : Black ink on thick buff card
Accession number: PD.4-1951B
Primary reference Number: 11815
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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