Title:
Study for 'The Garden of the Hesperides': Female Figure with Snake Date:
c.1892 Media:
Black and white chalk on brown paper Dimensions:
22.7 x 21.4 cm Location: Bewdley Museum, Worcestershire Picture credit:
Wyre Forest District Council Museum Service, Calderdale Museums and Arts Reference number:
1974-370.14 Inscriptions:
Inscribed on mount "Mrs R Barrington at:72 -- --" in pencil.
Full-length nude study for the central figure in the painting 'The Garden of the Hesperides' (c.1892, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight). Part of the snake across her lap is also drawn.