Henry Hugh Armstead RA, Study of a female figure for 'Remorse', ca. 1903.
Pen and ink with wash and white gouache over pencil on blue/green wove paper. 255 mm x 256 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Henry Hugh Armstead RA, Study of a female figure for 'Remorse', ca. 1903.
Pen and ink with wash and white gouache over pencil on blue/green wove paper. 255 mm x 256 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
This image is not available to download. To licence this image for commercial purposes, contact our Picture Library at picturelibrary@royalacademy.org.uk
Study of a female figure for 'Remorse', ca. 1903
Henry Hugh Armstead RA (1828 - 1905)
RA Collection: Art
A preparatory study for Armstead's sculpture 'Remorse' (1903, Tate Britain). The female figure represents Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth, after the murder of King Duncan, sleepwalking down a spiral staircase and wringing her hands saying 'What, will these hands ne'er be clean?'. The figure in the finished sculpture wears a braided headdress but her pose is similar to the drawings on this sheet and others in the Royal Academy collection.
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255 mm x 256 mm
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