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(s):: Chaucer, Geoffrey
Publisher:: Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896
Open Library:: View record

Description

A manly Cupid with flamboyant wings is busy at an outdoor forge holding an arrow in the fire and working the bellows as a woman behind him quenches the hot metal in a basin.

Keywords: 1890s, 19th century, black & white, fire, mixed genders, mythology, pre-raphaelite, Victorian, woodland, working