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A gentle Knight, from the Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 1, from "The Portfolio"

George Percy Jacomb-Hood British
Related author Edmund Spenser British

December 1880

Not on view

This print responds to lines in the first canto of Spenser's "Faerie Queen" (1590) which describe the Redcrosse Knight on horseback with the lady Una riding beside him on white donkey followed by a lamb.

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Title: A gentle Knight, from the Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 1, 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: December 1880

Medium: Etching

Dimensions: Plate: 7 7/8 × 6 1/8 in. (20 × 15.5 cm)
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 8 7/16 in. (29.6 × 21.4 cm)

Classification: Prints

Credit Line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985

Object Number: 1986.1180.2008

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