Lord Leighton PRA, Squared up drawing for 'Daedalus and Icarus', ca. 1869.
Pencil on tracing paper. 197 mm x 152 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Squared up drawing for 'Daedalus and Icarus', ca. 1869
Lord Leighton PRA (1830 - 1896)
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197 mm x 152 mm
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