"Who that beheld that sun upon thee set,

Fair Athens! could thine evening face forget"

 

- from Lord Bryon's The Corsair, canto III

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​Signed and dated ‘Edith Corbet 1903’ (lower left)

Oil on canvas

15 x 38 ⅝ in. (38 x 98 cm.)

24 ½ x 47 ⅝ in. (62 x 121 cm.) (framed)

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Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1903, no. 78

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£36,000

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