Skip to main content

Illustration to 'Under the Greenwood Tree', woman seated to right: PD.98-1990

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

Illustration to 'Under the Greenwood Tree', woman seated to right
Three-quarter length frontal view of standing female figure holding a candle in right hand

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Leighton, Clare

Entities

Categories

Notes

History note: Duncan Campbell

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1990) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

White chalk
Black chalk

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Sheet Height 305 mm Width 222 mm

Techniques used in production

Drawing : Black and white chalk on dark brown paper

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: Under the Greenwood Tree
  • Location: Recto, lower left
  • Method of creation: Black chalk

Inscription present: the '$' symbol is probably a letter 's' with two slanting deletion lines, in black chalk

  • Text: Clare Leighton / $25
  • Location: Recto, lower right
  • Method of creation: Black chalk

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.98-1990
Primary reference Number: 41583
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Illustration to 'Under the Greenwood Tree', woman seated to right" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/41583 Accessed: 2024-12-22 17:50:59

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/41583 |title=Illustration to 'Under the Greenwood Tree', woman seated to right |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-22 17:50:59|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-41583

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...