“A Gallery of Victorian Sculpture: Male Nudes (original) (raw)

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Literary and Mythological

Left: Frederick W. Pomeroy's Perseus. Middle: Sir Alfred Gilbert's Perseus Arming. Right: Sir Alfred Gilbert's Icarus.

Left: Sir W. Hamo Thornycroft's Teucer. Middle: Basil Gotto's Marsyas Defeated. Right: Alexander J. Leslie's Narcissus

Physical Activity and Athletics

Left: Frederick Lord Leighton's The Sluggard. Middle left: Frederick Lord Leighton's Athlete Wrestling with Python. Middle right: Sir William Reid Dick's The Slingshot. Right: Sir W. Hamo Thornycroft's Warrior Bearing a Wounded Youth from the Field of Battle

Left: Sir W. Hamo Thornycroft's The Bather. Middle: George Frederic Watts's Physical Energy. Right: Sir W. Hamo Thornycroft's The Stone Thrower

Left: John Henry Foley's The Norseman. Middle: David McGil's Medallion for the Society of British Sculptors. Right: David McGil's The Victor.

Left: Margaret M. Giles's The Son of Consolation. Middle: Margaret M. Giles's "After Nineteen Hundred Years and they Still Crucify. Right: Herbert Ward's The Idol Maker

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