Amavia finds her knight, Sir Mordant, bewitched in Acrasia's Bower of Bliss

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Amavia finds her knight, Sir Mordant, bewitched in Acrasia's Bower of Bliss

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pencil pen with grey wash 310 x 398 mm - Q.E. [Queen's Elm] 29th April. 10 In Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Book II, Acrasia represents Intemperance, and her ‘Bower of Bliss’ is the honey trap in which she transforms her prey into monstrous animals. Sir Mordant is shown in a state of trance, awaiting his fate. Fearful of what may happen, his wife ...

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1810

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Henry Fuseli

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nudes / mythology / myths / classicism / Neoclassical/European / Drawing

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