Amoret and Aemylia, with Prince Arthur (right), in the cottage of Sclaunder (Slander). Engraving by G.A. Periam after F.R. Pickersgill.

  • Pickersgill, Frederick Richard, 1820-1900.
Date:
1800-1899
Reference:
38128i
  • Pictures
  • Online

Selected images from this work

View 1 image

About this work

Description

An episode in The faerie queene by Edmund Spenser (book IV, canto 8): "Then all that evening welcommed with cold, And chearelesse hunger, they together spent; Yet found no fault, but that the hag did scold And rayle at them with grudgefull discontent, For lodging there without her owne consent: Yet they endured all with patience milde, And unto rest themselves all onely lent, Regardlesse of that queane so base and vilde, To be unjustly blamd, and bitterly revilde." The reason for the legend "Florimel and the witch" is not clear: it refers to a different episode in The faerie queene (book III, canto 7)

Publication/Creation

(G. Virtue)

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 17.4 x 25.4 cm

Lettering

Florimel and the witch. From the picture in the Vernon gallery. F.R. Pickersgill A.R.A. painter ; G.A. Periam, engraver. ... Lettering continues: Size of the picture. 2ft. 10 in. by 1ft. 11 in

Reference

Wellcome Collection 38128i

Reproduction note

After a painting exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1845 as "Amoret, Aemylia, and Prince Arthur in the cottage of Sclaunder" and subsequently in the Vernon and National Gallery (Tate) collections

Type/Technique

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores

Permanent link