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Study for a Picture of the Parting of Hero and Leander

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After F.C. Turner
1837
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The Parting of Hero and Leander, engraved by S. Bradshaw

After Joseph Mallord William Turner
published 1859–61
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Hero, Having Thrown herself from the Tower at the Sight of Leander Drowned, Dies on his Body

William Etty
exhibited 1829
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