Sir Tristem

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Artist

Name:: Millais, John Everett
Dates:: 1829-1896
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: People
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Engraver:: Swain, Joseph
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: Robarts Library, the Internet Archive

Periodical

Title:: Once a week, vol. 6 (December 1861-June 1862)
Author:: Collective work
Publisher:: London: Bradbury & Evans, 1862

Description:

A knight on his last journey lies in a small boat with a figurehead in the shape of a swan and sails like wings. This is an illustration to the poem “Sir Tristem” by Robert Williams Buchanan, based on the Tristan legend.

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