Fidelia and Speranza
Benjamin West
1784
- Medium
- Watercolor and brown ink on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 53 x 40.3 cm (20 7/8 x 15 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- Drawings
Tags
American
About
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.
