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Title:
An Outcrop in the Campagna
Object name(s):
Picture; British
Brief description:
This simple, quick image of a rocky outcrop silhouetted against a clear blue sky, was recently rediscovered when it appeared in a 1992 London sale. The sketch may date from the painting expedition in the Roman Campagna undertaken by Leighton, Giovanni Costa and William Blake Richmond (1842 - 1921) in the autumn of 1866. The directness with which the humble natural objects and the play of light are depicted are characteristic of Leighton's finest Italian oil sketches.
Collection:
National Gallery
Credit line:
The Gere Collection, on long-term loan to the National Gallery
Current location:
Not on display
Current reproduction location:
260/396/176/mid_L-0852-00-000003.jpg
Dimension:
Height
Dimension measured part:
Overall
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
20.20
Dimension:
Width
Dimension measured part:
Overall
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
43.50
Form:
None
Material:
Oil on canvas
Object name:
Picture; British
Object production date:
perhaps 1866
Date - earliest / single:
1866
Date - latest:
1866
Object production date:
Date - period:
1850-74
Object production person:
Frederic, Lord Leighton
Person's birth date:
1830
Person's death date:
1896
Other number:
L852
Other number type:
object number
Other number:
0FBA-0001-0000-0000
Other number type:
PID
Other number:
L852
Other number type:
display number
Other number:
000-033R-0000
Other number type:
PID (NG alternative)
Other number:
l2852
Other number type:
sort number
Responsible department/section:
Main Collection
Right note:
To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Style:
neoclassical
Style:
Victorian

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/c74a3517-be66-3ac6-b1d3-2a11a5aa83d4

Use licence for this record: CC BY

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/c74a3517-be66-3ac6-b1d3-2a11a5aa83d4, National Gallery, CC BY

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