Fidelia and Speranza, Benjamin West, 1784
Benjamin West, portraitBenjamin WestAmerican, 1738–1820

Fidelia and Speranza

1784 · Drawing

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Cambridge, United States

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This drawing illustrates stanzas XII-XIV, Book I, Canto X of Edmund Spenser's poem "The Faerie Queene." It is a study for an oil painting which is now in the Putnam Collection at the Timken Museum, San Diego, CA.

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1943.329

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