Besyde a Welle

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Cupid is busy at an outdoor forge, holding an arrow in the fire and working the bellows

Under a tree, besyde a welle, I say
Cupyde our lord his arwes forge and fyle.

Artist

Name:: Burne-Jones, Edward Coley
Dates:: 1833-1898
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: Narratives
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Engraver:: Hooper, William Harcourt
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: The Boston Public Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: The works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Author:: Chaucer, Geoffrey
Publisher:: Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896
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Description:

An athletic Cupid with flamboyant wings is busy at an outdoor forge, holding an arrow in the fire and working the bellows, while a woman behind him quenches the heated metal in a basin.

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