Lord Leighton PRA, Tessa at Home.
Wood-engraving. 98 mm x 150 mm.
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Tessa at Home
After Lord Leighton PRA (1830 - 1896)
RA Collection: Art
On free display in Library Print Room
98 mm x 150 mm
Romola / by George Eliot ; with illustrations by Sir Frederick Leighton, P.R.A. - London: 1880
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