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

Author 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
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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