File:Frederick Sandys - The Death of King Warwulf.jpg

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The Death of King Warwulf   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Frederick Sandys  (1829–1904)  wikidata:Q1470796 s:en:Author:Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys
 
Frederick Sandys
Alternative names
Antonio Frederic Augustus Sands, Frederick Sandys
Description British painter, illustrator and drawer
Date of birth/death 1 May 1829 Edit this at Wikidata 25 June 1904 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Norwich, England London
Work period Victorian era
Work location
England Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q1470796
Joseph Swain  (1820–1909)  wikidata:Q16856885 s:en:Author:Joseph Swain (1820-1909)
 
Joseph Swain
Alternative names
J. Swain
Description British engraver
Date of birth/death 29 February 1820 Edit this at Wikidata 25 February 1909 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Oxford Ealing
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artist QS:P170,Q16856885
Title
The Death of King Warwulf
Description
English: This illustration deftly captures the poignant last moment in the life of an aging Norse King, Warwolf. Wishing to die as a hero, Warwolf sits, head bowed in his ship which has been set afire, mirroring the affecting lines from Walter Thornbury’s accompanying poem: Sitting erect on his fir-tree throne, In his royal robe and glittering crown, As the fateful galley bore away… (see references)

Woodcut engraved by Joseph Swain from art by Frederick Sandys.
Date 1862
date QS:P571,+1862-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium engraving on wood
Dimensions composition: height: 5.5 in (14.1 cm); width: 4.5 in (11.4 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,5.5625U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,4.5U218593

sheet: height: 5.8 in (14.7 cm); width: 4.8 in (12.2 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,5.8125U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,4.8125U218593
institution QS:P195,Q1183941
Accession number
DAM 1935-150
Credit line Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935
Notes Illustration Citation: "The Death of King Warwulf," by Walter Thornbury, in Once a Week, vol. VII, 1862, p. 266
References Delaware Art Museum
Source/Photographer http://www.preraph.org/images/artwork/large/1935-150.jpg
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 English Illustration - The Sixties p391.png

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