Winding the skein

Liverpool Autumn Exhibition, 1878, Exhibition Venue Unknown, , Autumn 1878–Autumn 1878

Royal Academy of Arts, 1878, Royal Academy of Arts, London, Summer 1878–Summer 1878

Royal Academy of Arts winter exhibition, 1897, Royal Academy of Arts, London, Winter 1897–Winter 1897

Paintings, Drawings, and Water-Colours, The Maas Gallery, London, London, 1972–1972

Victorian Olympians, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Jun 1975–20 Jul 1975

Victorian Olympians, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 12 Aug 1975–14 Sep 1975

Victorian Olympians, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 26 Sep 1975–26 Oct 1975

Victorian High Renaissance, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, 01 Sep 1978–15 Oct 1978

Victorian High Renaissance, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, United States of America, 19 Nov 1978–07 Jan 1979

Victorian High Renaissance, Brooklyn Museum, United States of America, 10 Feb 1979–08 Apr 1979

Pre-Raphaelites and Olympians. Selected works of Victorian art from the John and Julie Schaeffer and the Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Apr 2001–09 Sep 2001

Love and death: art in the age of Queen Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 07 Dec 2001–03 Feb 2002

Love and death: art in the age of Queen Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 16 Mar 2002–12 May 2002

Love and death: art in the age of Queen Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 30 May 2002–28 Jul 2002

Love and death: art in the age of Queen Victoria, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, 24 Aug 2002–24 Nov 2002

Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 2009–10, Sydney, 2010, p 84.

Russell Ash, Lord Leighton, London, 1995, col illus pl 20.

Mrs Russell Barrington, Leighton, London, 1906, vol 2, pp 201, 211–12, 368, 370, 387, illus vol 1 after p 214.

Richard Beresford, Pre-Raphaelites and Olympians. Selected works of Victorian art from the John and Julie Schaeffer and the Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Sydney, 2001, unnumbered, p 38, col illus p 38.

Henry Blackburn (Editor), Academy notes with 150 illustrations, 120 being facsimiles of sketches by the artists, 'Gallery III', London, 1878, p 34, no 302, illus with sketch p 34.

Andrew Bolton Marvick, The art of John William Waterhouse: eclecticism in late nineteenth-century painting, New York, 1994, pp 175–76. PhD, Columbia University.

Edmund Capon AM, OBE and Jan Meek (Editors), Portrait of a Gallery, 'European art in the old courts', Sydney, 1984, p 16.

Pietro Citati, La pensee chatoyante: Ulysse et l'Odyssée, 2006, illus.

Alice Corkran, Frederick Leighton, London, 1904, pp 98, 201.

Jackie de Diana, Look, ‘Realism to surrealism: the Society’s art appreciation lecture series for 2104’, Sydney, Nov 2013, pp 28–29: illus pp 28–29.

Richard Dorment, Victorian High Renaissance, Manchester, 1978, p 116, no 53, illus p 116.

Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, p 112, illus p 113.

Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'European', Sydney, 1988, p 42.

Renée Free and Peter Laverty, Victorian Olympians, Sydney, 1975, pp 6, 18, no 16, col illus p 44.

Algernon Graves, A century of loan exhibitions, 1813–1912, London, 1913-1915, vol 2, 1913, p 674.

Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, London, 1905-1906, vol 5, 1906, p 32.

George R Halkett, The Walker Art Gallery notes, Liverpool, 1878, p 42, no 164, illus p 41 (sketch).

Terry Ingram, Australian Financial Review, ‘Fine Leighton for NSW gallery’, Sydney, 14 Feb 1974, illus p 29.

Henry James, Nation, ‘The Royal Academy’, 06 Jun 1878.

R. Jenkyns, The Victorians and ancient Greece, Oxford, 1980, pp 307–08.

Richard Jenkyns, Dignity and decadence: Victorian art and the classical inheritance, London, 1991, p 203.

Stephen Jones, Christopher Newall, Leonée Ormond, Richard J. Ormond and Benedict Read, Frederic, Lord Leighton: eminent Victorian artist, London, 1996, p 179.

Joseph A Kestner, Mythology and misogyny, Wisconsin, 1989, p 162.

Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, p 123, no 1323, col illus p 17.

Leonée Ormond and Richard J. Ormond, Lord Leighton, New Haven, 1975, pp 90–91, 128, 133, 164, no 249, pl 123.

Leonée Ormond and Richard Ormond, Apollo, 'Leighton in Paris', London, 1973, pp 136–41: p 138, illus fig 4.

Emilia F S Pattison, Modern artists: a series of illustrated biographies, ‘Sir Fredrick Leighton’, London, 1882, p 16, illus p 5 (sketch).

Ernest Rhys, Frederic, Lord Leighton, late President of the Royal Academy of Arts: an illustrated record of his life and his work, London, 1898, pp 29, 74, 87, illus opp p 30 (photogravure).

Ernest Rhys, Sir Frederic Leighton, Bart, PRA ..: an illustrated chronicle, London, 1895, pp 22, 69, illus opp p 56 (photogravure).

M H Spielmann, Magazine of Art, ‘The late Lord Leighton, PRA, DCL, LLD’, London, 1896, pp 197–216: p 207.

Edgcumbe Staley, Lord Leighton of Stretton, PRA, London, 1906, pp 112, 240.

Andrew Stephenson, Frederic Leighton: antiquity, renaissance, modernity, ‘Leighton and the shifting repertoires of “masculine” artistic identity in the late Victorian period’, London, 1999, pp 236, 245, col illus pl x.

John L Sweeney (Editor), The painter’s eye: notes and essays on the pictorial arts by Henry James, London, 1956, p 168. (University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1989, p 168, note 17).

Hiroyuki Tanita, Frederic Lord Leighton, Tokyo, 1995, p 46, no 21, col illus p 47.

Daniel Thomas, Art Gallery of New South Wales Annual, 'Recent Acquisitions', Sydney, 1974-1975, p 2, illus fig 1.

Angus Trumble (Curator), Love and Death: art in the age of Queen Victoria, Adelaide, 2001-2002, p 196, col illus p 197.

Brook Turner, Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Leighton goes home’, Sydney, 07 Feb 1996, p 17.

H Schütz Wilson, Magazine of Art, ‘Our living artists: Frederick Leighton, RA’, London, 1878, pp 57–62, p 59.

Christopher Wood, Olympian dreamers: Victorian classical painters 1860–1914, London, 1983, pp 54, 64, illus pp 54–55, fig 10.

Report of the trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales: report covering the period January–December, 1973, Sydney, 1974, pp 4, 5.

Report of the trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales: report covering the period January–December, 1974, Sydney, 1975, p 5.

Report of the trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales: report covering the period January–December, 1978, Sydney, 1980, p 13. Loan.

Olympian dreamers, an exhibition of Victorian classical paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints, to celebrate the publication of Christopher Wood’s ‘Olympian Dreamers’ by Constable in October 1983, London, 1983, under no 7.

The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts... the one hundred and tenth, London, 1878, p 17, no 302.

Victorian pictures, drawings and watercolours..., London, 01 Nov 1990-02 Nov 1990, p 183, under no 287.

Magazine of Art, ‘The Royal Academy – first notice’, London, 1878, pp 40–45: p 43.

Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures... the eighth, Liverpool, 1878, p 14, no 164.

Art Journal, 'The Royal Academy Exhibition', London, Jul 1878, pp 145–48: p 147.

Athenaeum, 'The Royal Academy', London, 04 May 1878, p 576.

Times, 'Exhibition of the Royal Academy', London, 04 May 1878, p 12.

Victorian paintings, drawings, and watercolours, London, 1972, p [2], no 13, col illus on cover.

Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 2002, Sydney, 2002, p 69. Loan.

Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 2012–13, Sydney, 2013, p 67.

Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 1991, Sydney, 1991, p 24, col illus p 87.

Catalogue of the reproductions of the late Lord Leighton’s pictures, London, [1896], illus p [9] (photogravure).

Athenaeum, ‘The Royal Academy – winter exhibition: Lord Leighton’s pictures (third and concluding notice)’, London, 20 Feb 1897, pp 252–53: p 253.

Art Journal, ‘Lord Leighton’s pictures: the Royal Academy winter exhibition, 1897’, London, 1897, pp 58–60: p 60.

Magazine of Art, ‘Notices of books’, London, 1878, p xxxii.

Catalogue of important modern pictures and water colour drawings the property of a gentleman …, London, 24 Mar 1906, p 19, no 111.

Builder, ‘The Royal Academy Exhibition’, London, 11 May 1878, pp 473–75: pp 473–74.

Illustrated London News, ‘Royal Academy exhibition’, London, 04 May 1878, p 410.