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Leonidas at Thermopylae

ca. 1815

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

The helmeted but naked figure of the warrior king of Sparta, Leonidas, holding a shield and carrying a sword in the center of a rocky pass with a field of warriors. On the left a man engraves on a rock with his sword the inscription which will recall for posterity the deed of the Spartan. At the left is the blind warrior Eurites. In sepia on natural.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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