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Fidelia and Speranza
Benjamin West1784
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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