consequences
she said
consequences
was her name
John Collier's Clytemnestra, hand-colourized by the artist. A page cut from the 1914 edition of Royal Academy Pictures and Sculpture.
The story
The artwork is a page from the 1914 volume of Royal Academy Pictures, the annual book that recorded the paintings hung at the Royal Academy’s summer exhibition in London. The painting it reproduces is by John Collier (1850–1934), the younger son of a baron.
The story is the oldest one in the show. Clytemnestra, queen of Mycenae, killed her husband Agamemnon when he came home from Troy, in revenge for his sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia.
The page was printed in black and white. Every colour on it was added by hand, more than a century later.