Description
Autograph Letter in the third person, in which Sir Frederick Leighton gives instructions for “tomorrow morning without fail” for a call at 74 South Audley Street “to remove, with the greatest care, the glass from the “Cymon & Iphigenia” which is to be sent to Berlin without the glass. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, a few ink smudges, otherwise good. 2 Holland Park Road, undated. Lord Leighton (1830-96), painter. Cymon and Iphigenia is an oil on canvas painting by Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton. The painting does not bear a date but was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1884. The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, purchased it at a Christie’s auction in London in 1976.