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Fidelia and Speranza

Benjamin West1784

Harvard Art Museums

Harvard Art Museums
Cambridge, United States

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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  • Title: Fidelia and Speranza
  • Creator Lifespan: 1738 - 1820
  • Creator Nationality: American
  • Creator Death Place: London, England
  • Creator Birth Place: Springfield, PA
  • Date: 1784
  • Physical Dimensions: w40.3 x h53.0 cm
  • Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
  • Artist: Benjamin West
  • Type: Drawings
  • External Link: Harvard Art Museums
  • Medium: Watercolor and brown ink on cream laid paper
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