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T04844 Colour Study for ‘Sir Calepine Rescuing Serena’ c.1830
Watercolour over pencil on wove paper 166 × 258 (6 1/2 × 10 1/8)
Inscribed on the back in a later hand in pencil ‘Wm Hilton RA 1839 sketch for “Sir Calepine rescuing Serena” | now at Tate Gallery’ and in red ballpoint ‘1786-d. | P.J.J. Morgan Swansea’
Purchased (Grant-in-Aid) 1986
Prov: ...; ?P.J.J. Morgan, Swansea; ...; Agnew, from whom bt by Tate Gallery
William Hilton's large oil painting ‘Sir Calepine Rescuing Serena’ was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1831 (64). It took as its subject the following lines from Canto 8 of Book 6 of The Fairie Queen by the seventeenth-century poet Edmund Spenser:
Sir Calepine by chaunce more than choyce
The selfe same evening fortune hither drove
As he to seek Serena through the woods did rove ..… (read more)
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