The Cave of Despair. From Spenser.
B. West, R.A. pinxit. Val. Green Engraver to his Mayesty, fecit.
Published, June 1st. 1775, by John Boydell Engraver, Cheapside, London.
Mezzotint, uncleaned title area, 445 x 530mm. 17½ x 20¾". Few stains.
Illustrates Edmund Spenser's (1552? - 1599) epic poem 'The Faerie Queene': Despair, an old man, sits in ragged clothing on the ground with instruments of suicide at his left hand, the corpse of Sir Terwin beside him and a skeleton on the rocks behind. To left the Red Cross Knight holds a dagger to his own neck as Una rushes to stop him, a donkey beside her. After the painting by Benjamin West (1738 - 1820).
Whitman: 190. Chaloner Smith undescribed. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 14841] £450.00
Published, June 1st. 1775, by John Boydell Engraver, Cheapside, London.
Mezzotint, uncleaned title area, 445 x 530mm. 17½ x 20¾". Few stains.
Illustrates Edmund Spenser's (1552? - 1599) epic poem 'The Faerie Queene': Despair, an old man, sits in ragged clothing on the ground with instruments of suicide at his left hand, the corpse of Sir Terwin beside him and a skeleton on the rocks behind. To left the Red Cross Knight holds a dagger to his own neck as Una rushes to stop him, a donkey beside her. After the painting by Benjamin West (1738 - 1820).
Whitman: 190. Chaloner Smith undescribed. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 14841] £450.00