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Study for a Picture of the Parting of Hero and Leander

Joseph Mallord William Turner
c.1799–1805
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The Felucca

Joseph Mallord William Turner
c.1824
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Study for ‘The Parting of Hero and Leander’

Joseph Mallord William Turner
1816
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A Storm with Thunder and Lightning; a Study for a Classical Subject, Possibly Hero and Leander; ?a Rural Bridge

Joseph Mallord William Turner
c.1823–4
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c.1830
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Hero and Leander

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c.1875

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The Parting of Hero and Leander

William Etty
exhibited 1827

Damon and Pythias, from ‘The Book of Gems’

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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Leander

Thomas Stothard
date not known
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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
On display at Tate Britain part of Historic and Modern British Art
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