File:George Wilson - The Spring Witch.jpg
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[edit]George Wilson: The Spring Witch ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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artist QS:P170,Q21463958 |
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The Spring Witch |
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painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Description |
English: Very little is known about the painter George Wilson. He was associated with a group of artists and writers who called themselves “The Brotherhood,” united in their admiration of artist-poets Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Blake. The subject of Spring Witch is loosely based on the myth of Persephone, who, captured by Hades, god of the underworld, was granted freedom by Zeus on the condition that she had not partaken of any food while imprisoned beneath the earth, a promise which she did not keep. She is shown here on the day of her release, emerging into the early Spring. Wilson takes full advantage of the season, filling the foreground with new-flowering plant matter, depicted with Ruskinian attention to detail. (see references) |
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Date |
circa 1880 date QS:P571,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
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height: 42 in (106.6 cm); width: 31.5 in (80 cm) dimensions QS:P2048,42U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,31.5U218593 with frame: height: 54.5 in (138.4 cm); width: 43.2 in (109.8 cm) dimensions QS:P2048,54.5U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,43.25U218593 |
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institution QS:P195,Q1183941 |
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Accession number |
DAM 1992-2 |
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Credit line | F. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund and Gift of Mark and Jill Willcox, 1992 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
References | Delaware Art Museum | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | http://www.preraph.org/images/artwork/large/1992-2.jpg |
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- George Wilson (painter)
- Persephone in post-antique art
- Paintings of allegories of spring
- Nude or partially nude people at doors in art
- Pre-Raphaelite paintings of women
- Pre-Raphaelite paintings of mythology
- 1880s oil on canvas paintings in the United States
- 1880s mythological paintings
- Paintings in Delaware Art Museum
- Nude witches
- Paintings of Persephone