Fidelia and Speranza
1784
Artists
Description
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.
Dimensions
53 x 40.3 cm (20 7/8 x 15 7/8 in.)
Provenance
Scott & Fowles, New York, NY, sold to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1920; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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