Title: Hector taking leave of Andromache: the Fright of Astyanax
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1766
Artist:  Benjamin West 
Artist bio: American, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1738–1820 London
Artist nationality: American
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash and blue watercolor, touches of gouache (bodycolor), over traces of black chalk
Dimensions: 14 x 19 in.  (35.6 x 48.3 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2000
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Soldiers, term: Children, term: Men, term: Women