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Title: Dead Hector title : Hector Lying Dead

Object Name: painting

Artist/Maker: Riviere, Briton R.A.
Role in production: artist
Place of Creation: Europe, United Kingdom, England
Date: 1892

Accession Number: 1917.259
Image Copyright: © Manchester City Galleries
Credit: Gift of Mr James Gresham

Physical Description

Medium / Material

oil/oil
canvas
oil on canvas

Support

canvas

Technique

Description

Scene depicting the naked body of Hector thrown into the wilderness by Achilles. Hector lies on sandbank to right, surrounded by small clumps of grass, three wolves to the left circling his body, one in foreground to left, two in background by edge of sea. Rocky cliff face in background to right.