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Landscape
William Leighton Leitch1867
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Reviewing a posthumous exhibition of William Leighton Leitch’s work shortly after his death in 1883, The Standard commented: ‘The problems of composition in landscape, with which few are now occupied, Mr Leitch habitually solved. His work, therefore, never prided itself on being a transcript from the Nature that inspired it. It was an adaptation for the purposes of art.
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Details
- Title: Landscape
- Creator: William Leighton Leitch
- Date Created: 1867
- Physical Dimensions: 20.5 x 30.0 cm image/sheet; 37.0 x 51.0 x 2.5 cm frame
- Provenance: Albert and Katey Nathan, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, Bequest of Albert and Katey Nathan in 1941
- Type: Watercolour
- Rights: Bequest of Albert and Katey Nathan 1941
- External Link: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/7152/
- Medium: watercolour
- Signature & Date: Signed and dated l.r., "W. L. Leitch/ 1867".
- Artist Country: Scotland
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