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Painter:
West, Benjamin 1738-1820  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Timken Museum of Art 1500 El Prado, Balboa Park San Diego California 92101 Accession Number: 1969:001
Date:
1776
Notes:
Timken Museum of Art, 1995.
Timken Museum of Art, "Gallery Guide: European Paintings, American Paintings and Russian Icons in the Collection of the Putnam Foundation," San Diego, CA: The Museum, 1991, pg. 36.
Summary:
Full-length figures of Fidelia and Speranza, characters from Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene," stand in an interior setting. Fidelia, on the left, holds the New Testament and the chalice of St. John. Speranza holds an anchor.
Topic:
Literature--Spenser--Faerie Queene  Search this
Literature--Character--Fidelia  Search this
Literature--Character--Spiranza  Search this
Control number:
IAP 67320007
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_349860