The King at the Gate - Study for the Figure of the King1861 – 1862 Accession number: 1906P836 Pen and ink and pencil on paper. Width: 58 mm Height: 125 mm InformationA preparatory study for an illustration to a poem by Walter Thornbury published in 'Once a Week,' 1862 (15 March, p. 322). The poem 'tells of the appearance in front of the king and his petitioners (?), of the god Zeus in the guise of a stranger' (Elzea, Frederick Sandys 1829-1904: A Catalogue RaisonnĂ©, p. 209).
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