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SM P243. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Art UK
Sir Charles Lock Eastlake PRA (1793 - 1865)
Una and the Red Cross Knight
1830
Oil on canvas
Height: 79.4cm, maximum
Width: 51.5cm
Width: 51.5cm
Inscription: None
Museum number: P243
On display: North Drawing Room
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Curatorial note
Una delivering the Red Cross Knight from the Cave of Despair, from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book 1, Canto 9, 8-35.
Provenance
Commissioned by Soane from the artist (according to Gage, 1980, the commission dated back to as early 1824) and completed and paid for in 1830. The picture was painted in Rome: Soane paid Eastlake for the frame and for 'carriage of picture from Rome' on 11 August 1830. Exhibited Royal Academy 1830, no. 99.
Literature
Soane, Description, 1830, p.40
Soane, Description, 1835, pp. 70 and 82
Butlin, M. and Joll, E., The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, 1977, p. 254
Gage, John (ed.), Collected Correspondence of J.M.W. Turner, 1980, p. 127-131
Susan Feinberg Millenson, Sir John Soane's Museum, UMI Research Press, 1987, p.90 and 94, fig. 58
Thornton and Dorey, Miscellany, 1992, p.124
New Description, 2007, pp.30 and 102
Soane, Description, 1835, pp. 70 and 82
Butlin, M. and Joll, E., The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, 1977, p. 254
Gage, John (ed.), Collected Correspondence of J.M.W. Turner, 1980, p. 127-131
Susan Feinberg Millenson, Sir John Soane's Museum, UMI Research Press, 1987, p.90 and 94, fig. 58
Thornton and Dorey, Miscellany, 1992, p.124
New Description, 2007, pp.30 and 102
Exhibition history
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1830
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