Henry Hugh Armstead RA, Draped studies of a female figure for 'Remorse', ca. 1903.
Pen and black ink with wash and white gouache over pencil on blue/green wove paper. 353 mm x 252 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Henry Hugh Armstead RA, Draped studies of a female figure for 'Remorse', ca. 1903.
Pen and black ink with wash and white gouache over pencil on blue/green wove paper. 353 mm x 252 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Henry Hugh Armstead RA (1828 - 1905)
RA Collection: Art
A sheet of preparatory studies for Armstead's sculpture 'Remorse' (1903, Tate Britain).
The female figure represents Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth, after the murder of King Duncan, sleepwalking down a spiral staircase and wringing her hands saying 'What, will these hands ne'er be clean?'. The figure in the finished sculpture wears a braided headdress but her pose is similar to the drawings on this sheet and others in the Royal Academy collection.
353 mm x 252 mm