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Reading the Legend
Lilly Martin Spencer1852
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Hartford, United States
A young woman gazes longingly toward an ivy-covered Gothic ruin as her beau reads a romantic novel to her. (The ruin is actually Blarney Castle in Ireland, which burned in 1820, and probably looked much like this picturesque image at the time of Spencer’s painting. It was rebuilt in the 1870s.
Details
- Title: Reading the Legend
- Creator: Lilly Martin Spencer
- Manufacturer: American
- Date Created: 1852
- Location Created: United States
- Physical Dimensions: 50 3/8 x 38 inches
- Provenance: Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts. Gift of Adeline Flint Wing, class of 1898 and Caroline Roberta Wing, class of 1896, SC 1954:69
- Type: Painting
- Original Source: Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts. Gift of Adeline Flint Wing, class of 1898 and Caroline Roberta Wing, class of 1896, SC 1954:69
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Creator 1 death date: 1902
- Creator 1 birth date: 1822
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