The cave of despair from Spenser [graphic]

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Title: The cave of despair from Spenser [graphic]
Creator: Green, Valentine, 1739-1813, printmaker
Contributor: West, Benjamin, 1738-1820, artist.
Boydell, John, 1720-1804, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 June 1775]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published June 1st, 1775, by John Boydell Engraver, Cheapside, London
Abstract: "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 the left the Red Cross Knight holds a dagger to his own neck as Una rushes to stop him, a donkey beside her; after West (Staley 220)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description: Title from text below image.
For an earlier state with scratched lettering, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1838,0425.63. See also: Whitman, A. British mezzotinters: Valentine Green, 190.
Provenance: Print Room ; May 1998 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 44.4 x 53 cm, on sheet 47 x 56 cm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Mezzotints England London 1775
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Subject (Topic): Caves
Subjects: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 > Illustrations
Caves
England > London > 1775

Access: Public
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