Frederic, Lord Leighton, PRA: Whispers 1881

The chapters are: Frederic Leighton & the Victorian art world: Leighton & the aesthetes; 'Whispers' & its sources; Sir Frederic Leighton in 1881; Leighton's classical subjects; Horace's IX Ode the Soracte Ode; the development of the composition; the wheel of colour in Whispers; past owners.