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Study for “Hector Parting from Andromache and Astyanax”
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Benjamin West

Study for “Hector Parting from Andromache and Astyanax”

c. 1760-1792

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Benjamin West

Study for “Hector Parting from Andromache and Astyanax”

c. 1760-1792

Physical Qualities Graphite on wove paper, Sheet: 115 x 184 mm. (4 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.)
Portfolio/Series From an untitled 75-page sketchbook
Credit Line Gift of Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Lutherville, Maryland, in Memory of Marion Tuttle Colwill
Object Number 2008.277.28
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2008; Stiles Tuttle Colwill, by purchase, 2007; Christie's London, Wednesday, November 21, 2007, lot 44; private collection; Sotheby's, London, July 19, 1979, lot 36; Mrs. P. Howard (descendant of the artist)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, "American Adversaries: West and Copley in a Transatlantic World," 6 October 2013-20 January 2014.

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Benjamin West

American, 1738-1820

American, 1738-1820
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