Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Edwin Austin Abbey, Royal Academician, Vol. 2: The Record of His Life and Work; 1894-1911
Other canvases begun and never finished included the wrestling scene in As You Like It; the trial scene in The Merchant of Venice; The Priest and the Great Lady, a version, in oil, of the Rothen burg water-colour; Tristan and Isolde; The World Without' (a hermit in his cell, his ear close to a hole in the wall, intently listening to the confession of a knight in armour unseen by him); The Dance by the Hay rick;' a series of designs from The Scarlet Letter; another series from Chaucer;the Burghers of Calais; Richard II. Riding on a mule in Bolingbroke's triumphal procession through London; 'the Lawn by the Orangery (two ladies in white dresses and two white peacocks); and the pictures referred to in the letter to Charles Parsons of October 1 sth, 1 893 already quoted, wh ere he says: I am writing in the most honestly egotisticalvein, for I know you want to hear about me - about us, and I want to tell you about my series of designs for the Decameron and for the 'months, and a large subject symbolical of the Dark Ages, ' a great four-storied gibbet against a black Sky, victims hanging in chains, birds of prey, etc. In the foreground a crowded road swarming with knights in armour and their squires, peasant girls and monks, beggars and pilgrims be fore a crucifix, all pushing, crowding, brawling in a great mass. But time was denied the artist for the completion of any one of these dreams.
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