Detail View: SHIMMER: Garden of the Hesperides
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Title:
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Garden of the Hesperides
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Creation Date:
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1892
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Image Date:
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1988
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Period:
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19th century
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Location:
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Port Sunlight, Wirral
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Country:
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ENGLAND, UK
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Display Creator:
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LEIGHTON, Frederic
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Image ID:
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91-4942
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Description:
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Location: Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight The painting is in an ornate gold frame hanging on a wall. Reclining women under a tree with a swan in the foreground. This is typical of the paintings on show in the gallery. Lord Lever bought 'The Garden of the Hesperides' together with 'Daphnephoria' in 1913 from the Christie's auction of the collection of the famous collector of Victorian art, George McCullogh. Segar OWEN was the son of William OWEN. The Gallery is a Grade II listed building founded by William Hesketh Lever, the first Lord Leverhulme, the Sunlight soap magnate.
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Rights:
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© Sheffield Hallam University
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Permissions:
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For educational use only. This image may be used in print or digital materials provided that full acknowledgment is given, expressed as follows: " © < insert details from the 'Rights' field >. Photographed by < insert details from the 'Photographed by' field >."
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Photographed by:
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member of staff
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Creator:
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LEIGHTON, Frederic
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Creator Dates - Born:
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1830
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Creator Dates - Died:
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1896
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Creator Role:
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Artist.
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Culture Gender:
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Male.
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Nationality:
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British - English.
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Subject Heading:
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Painting, English -- 1800-1900
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Subject Heading:
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Neoclassicism (Art)
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Subject Heading:
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Art museums -- England -- Liverpool
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Subject Heading:
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Port Sunlight (Merseyside, England)
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Subject Heading:
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Art exhibitions
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Subject Heading:
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Animals in art
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Subject Heading:
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Mythology, Classical, in art.
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