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George Percy Jacomb-Hood British
Related author Edmund Spenser British
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A scene from Edmund Spencer's epic poem showing the meeting of the Redcrosse Knight and Sansfoy (faithless). They will fight and the latter be defeated..
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Title: Combat of the Redcrosse Knight and Sansfoy, from the Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 2, from "The Portfolio"
Series/Portfolio: The Porfolio, vol. 11, edited by P. G. Hamerton
Artist:
George Percy Jacomb-Hood (British, Red Hill, Surrey 1857–1937 Alassio, Italy)
Author:
Related author Edmund Spenser (British, London 1552?–1599 London)
Date: 1880
Medium: Etching
Dimensions:
Plate: 7 1/4 × 8 7/16 in. (18.4 × 21.5 cm)
Sheet: 9 5/8 × 10 1/4 in. (24.5 × 26.1 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985
Object Number: 1986.1180.2007
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