Study for a Male Figure in "Comus–The Measure" (recto); Reclining Male Nude (verso), George Richmond, before 1864

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Study for a Male Figure in 'Comus–The Measure' (recto); Reclining Male Nude (verso), before 1864, Black chalk, Sheet: 11 7/16 × 8 3/4 in. (29 × cm), Drawings, George Richmond (British, Brompton 1809–1896 London), The study of a muscular male nude on the recto of this sheet relates to Richmond’s painting 'Comus' exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1864 (now Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool). The story, told in Milton's masque-poem, concerns a girl separated from her brothers in a dark wood who encounters the reveler Comus and his band of followers

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