Sir Guyon Arriving at the Bower of Bliss
Oil Painting
ca. 1849 (painted)
ca. 1849 (painted)
| Artist/Maker |
Oil painting, 'Sir Guyon Arriving at the Bower of Bliss', Thomas Uwins, ca. 1849
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Sir Guyon Arriving at the Bower of Bliss |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on paper |
| Brief description | Oil painting, 'Sir Guyon Arriving at the Bower of Bliss', Thomas Uwins, ca. 1849 |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'T Uwins RA' (Signed by the artist on a label on the back) |
| Object history | Purchased, 1875 |
| Production | A sketch for the painting exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1849 (188), beqeathed to the British Museum in 1863 by Apsley Pellatt and later destroyed in the Tate Gallery flood (1928). |
| Literary reference | Edmund Spenser, <i>The Faerie Queen</i> |
| Bibliographic reference | Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 289-90 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 612-1875 |
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| Record created | April 17, 2007 |
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