Six Sketches of Rhodes

Title: Six Sketches of Rhodes
Artist: Sir Frederic Leighton
Status: R. A.
First Exhibited Date: c. 1867
Type: Oil on canvas
Size (HxW, mm): 257 x 454
Current Exhibition Location: Art Gallery, New South Wales: 1305.1990
Lent By: the artist
Catalog Number: 56
Catalog Page: 9
Catalog Description: Rhodes is a Greek island in the Mediterranean, and these sketches are full of "the deep divine dark dayshine of the sea." "There the sunshine in the happy glens is fair," and Greek poets called the island "the bride of the sun." There was a fable, too, that when the gods made division of the earth among them, the sun-god did not obtain his portion; and when the other gods were for casting lots afresh, he suffered them not, for he said that, beneaht the hoary sea he saw a certain land waxing from its root in the earth, which should bring forth food for many men, and rejoice in flocks, and that he wanted this for his portion. And the gods granted him his wish, and in the end there spraing up from the sea the Island of Rhodes.