A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine & c.

Method Etching
Artist George Percy Jacomb-Hood
Published The Portfolio, XI, December 1880
Dimensions Image and plate 200 x 152 mm
Notes Signed in plate.
Ex. Col. Frank Emmanuel.

Scene from Edmund Spencer's incomplete epic poem The Faerie Queene. With the inscription "A gentle Knigh was pricking on the plaine & c." The Fairt Queen Bk I Canto 1, Published in the Portfolio.

George Percy Jacomb-Hood (Redhill, Surrey, 1857 - Chelsea, 1929) was a genre painter, illustrator and engraver. He was a member of the Society of British Artists. Hood studied at the Slade and under Lavery in Paris.

He lived at 112 Lexham Gardens, Kensington. Hood was a member of The Arts Club between 1888-1910. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1879, the Grosvenor Gallery, the Society of British Artists, the Royal Society of British Artists from 1885 and in Winter 1886-87 and Winter 1887-88. He was also a member of the New English Art Club for a while.
Framing unmounted
Price £80.00
Stock ID 20839

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