Description
From Spenser’s Faerie Queene places small figures in a dark rocky ravine near the lower center, with a foreground tree or stump at the left and wider water beyond. Turner gives the scene from Spenser’s Faerie Queene a landscape that remains substantial around its human presences. The contrast between close, obstructed ground and a more open distance lets the setting carry part of the literary image’s interest.
Published in June 1811, the print combines etching and mezzotint. J. M. W. Turner designed and etched it, with Thomas Hodgetts credited as engraver; this is the fourth of four states. Its interest lies in allowing a landscape to carry literary meaning, giving an imagined encounter a setting whose natural forms remain an important part of the image.
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