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Object Type
Museum number: 2020,7040.1
Title: Object: Hero
Description: Hero standing on steps down to the sea gazing to the left with a wreath in her right hand. 1899 Colour photogravure on chine collé
Producer name: After: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema; Published by: Arthur Tooth
School/style: British; Dutch
Production date: 1899
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: photogravure; colour
Dimensions: Height: 760 millimetres (sheet); Height: 480 millimetres; Width: 565 millimetres (sheet); Width: 327 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The painting was commissioned by Tooth in 1898, and they sold it the following year to Knoedler, New York, and is currently untraced, see V.G. Swanson, 'The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema', 1990, no. 389.
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names
Acquisition name: Donated by: Donato Esposito; In Memory of: Dr Ian Jenkins
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 2020
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 2020,7040.1

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