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THBWilliam Kent, Spencer Fairy Queen 7 Colored Engravings, ca 1750
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Buy NowApr 30, 2024 - May 13, 2024
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William Kent , United Kingdom, Born: 1685 Died: 1748 Known for: Painting 7 hand Tinted engravings 9 3/18" W by 6 2/8" H engravings on paper 13" by 11" William Kent’s thirty-two illustrations to The Faerie Queene were the most extensive sequence produced until the end of the nineteenth century. This essay serves as a commentary on the prints which are reproduced in their entirety for the first time. Kent is important as an illustrator of the poem because he was the first designer to respond imaginatively to the possibilities of Spenser’s landscape and, as a result, had a major influence on later eighteenth-century taste. Spenser’s reputation as an English gothic poet owes much to Kent’s influence, but Kent was a sophisticated enough artist and reader of the poem to respond also to the Italianate elements in Spenser’s work, which strongly corresponded with his own interests. Kent was notoriously eclectic and experimental as an artist, taking on a whole range of projects throughout his career—garden designer, architect, furniture and interior designer, painter, costume maker as well as book illustrator—and it is difficult to see whether his intepretations of Spenser’s allegory have any particular significance.
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