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Description: | inscr. in pencil on verso "Book Illustration by / Margaret Macdonald / To be returned to / Chas R Mackintosh / 140 Bath Street / Glasgow" DES MACDONALD, Margaret; (English; 1864-1933) In 1897 the Macdonald sisters painted a series of 21 watercolours, including this, illustrating William Morris's poems 'The Defence of Guenevery and Other Poems'. The works were bound within an 1892 Kelmscott Press edition of the poem series. The paintings richly illustrate the artists' creative imagination and ambition. In late nineteenth-century Britain, Arthurian subject matter presented a glorious world of knights, chivalry, courage and love, which provided a powerful visual and imaginative antidote to the harsher realities of urban industrialisation. The sisters focused on poems addressing courtly love, not chivalric action, illustrating the narratives of the knights' beautiful and often tragic lady loves, including Guenevere, Rapunzel and Jehane. Love, loss and otherworldly powers permeate the images, and, though the male is largely absent or at best a shadowy figure, the polarities of male: female; action: passivity; duty: emotion; death: life are prominent. See also GLAHA 52878-89. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PHOTOGRAPH : ARCHIVAL : WATERCOLOUR : MORRIS, WILLIAM : ILLUSTRATION : DEFENCE OF GUINEVERE : POEMS : ARTHUR : CRM ONLINE : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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