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An engraving of Frederic Lord
Leighton (1830–1896) from
James Taylor’s The Victorian
Empire (William Mackenzie
London 1899) FACING PAGE
The 1.75m-high bronze cast of
Leighton’s sculptural masterpiece
An Athlete Wrestling with a
Python 1877 was bought by the
Chantrey Bequest for the Tate’s
collection the same year that it
was made. It remains on display
on the main oor at Tate Britain