All Resolutions
Sunning his threasure hore:
Is by him tempted, and led down,
To see his secrete store.
Artist
- Name:
- Crane, Walter
- Dates:
- 1845-1915
- Country:
- UK
Illustration
- Subject:
- Narratives, Ornaments & patterns
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Robarts Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Spenser's Faerie queene, vol. 2
- Author(s):
- Spenser, Edmund
- Publisher:
- London: George Allen, 1895
- Open Library:
- View record.
Description
A knight in armor has gone down stairs made of high stones to meet an old man curled up over a pile of coins he keeps in his lap. As the coins keep falling off and the old man can’t seem to be able to get a grip on his treasure, a dead tree looking like a skeleton bends threateningly over him.
Keywords: 1890s, 19th century, Arts and Crafts, black & white, death, knight, money, Spenser's Faerie queene, tree, Victorian