Images Dated 29th January 2009

The Athlete Wrestling with a Python, c1880-1882. Artist: A Gilbert

The Athlete Wrestling with a Python, c1880-1882. Etching of the sculpture by Sir Frederic Leighton. A print from Modern Artists, prepared under the direction of FG Dumas, JS Virtue and Co, London, c1880-1882

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Beech Tree, Autumn, 1900

Beech Tree, Autumn, 1900. From the drawing by John MacWhirter in Landscape Painting in Water Colours, reproduced as a print in The Magazine of Art, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1900

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The Death of Chatterton, 1856 (1900)

The Death of Chatterton, 1856 (1900). This was the first great success of the British Pre-Raphaelite painter Henry Wallis. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856. It depicts Thomas Chatterton, an 18th century poet who committed suicide aged just seventeen and was a romantic hero to struggling young artists in the mid 19th century. The model used for the painting was the novelist and poet George Meredith

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