2-697-046 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Last Watch of Hero', 1887, (c1902). After a painting in the Manchester Art Gallery. Victorian depiction of a scene from Greek mythology, the priestess Hero waits anxiously for her lover Leander who has drowned after Hero's guiding lamp was blown out by the wind. From The Nation's Pictures. A selection from the finest modern paintings in the public picture galleries of Great Britain, reproduced in colour. [Cassell and Company Ltd, London, c1902]