Black and white chalk on blue paper, 20.5 by 28 cm

Provenance: with Julian Hartnoll

Literature: Russell Barrington, The life, letters and work of Frederick Leighton, London, 1906, plate 62.18

A study by Leighton for his set of illustrations to George Eliot's Romola, set in fifteenth century Florence and first published in installments in Cornhill Magazine in 1862 and 1863.