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Sir Guyon with the Palmer Attending, Tempted by Phaedria to Land upon the Enchanted Islands

Artist: Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)

Date: 1849

Medium: Watercolor and bodycolor, with some gum arabic, over black chalk underdrawing

Collection: Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The Faerie Queene, Book 2

In the boat to the left stand Sir Guyon and the palmer, a pilgrim holding a palm branch who has returned from the Holy Land. Phaedria stands in the boat to the right, gesturing across the Idle Lake to the Enchanted Isle on the right, replete with dancing nymphs glittering in the evening sun.

The subject is adapted from a passage in the Faerie Queene, a poem first published in 1590 by the English writer Edmund Spenser. In the poem, however, Phaedria refused, much against Sir Guyon's wishes, to take the palmer as well, and he was left behind on the bank. In Samuel Palmer's adaptation, the palmer is included, presumably intended as an autobiographical reference.

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Samuel Palmer painted Sir Guyon Tempted by Phaedria in 1849.

Palmer pulled his subject from Edmund Spenser's famous poem of 1590, The Faerie Queene.

Phaedria beckons Sir Guyon towards a beautifully bucolic—literally so, a bull stands with several goats on the shore—island.

As the Getty points out, though, "[i]n the poem, however, Phaedria refused, much against Sir Guyon's wishes, to take the palmer as well, and he was left behind on the bank. In Samuel Palmer's adaptation, the palmer is included, presumably intended as an autobiographical reference."

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