The Knight's Tale

Name: SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT, R.A., P.R.W.S., R.S.W. (BRITISH 1880-1969)
Brand: The Knight's Tale
Price: 1600.00 USD
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Closed: 20 Oct 2023

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SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT, R.A., P.R.W.S., R.S.W. (BRITISH 1880-1969)

The Knight's Tale

Price Realised USD 2,016

Closed: 20 Oct 2023

Price Realised USD 2,016

Closed: 20 Oct 2023

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SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT, R.A., P.R.W.S., R.S.W. (BRITISH 1880-1969)
The Knight's Tale
signed and dated 'W. Russell Flint/1912.' (lower left)
watercolor and bodycolor on paper on board
10³⁄₄ x 8³⁄₄ in. (27.3 x 22.2 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 30 September 1999, lot 51.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

G. Chaucer, Illustrations by W. Russell Flint, The Canterbury Tales, London, 1913, vol. 1, p. 51, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Chaucer's, tells the story of two cousins, Palamon and Arcite, who both fall in love with Emelye. The two knights begin to duel for her hand in marriage, when Duke Theseus finds them and intervenes. Theseus plans to sentence them both to death for their behavior. However, both Emelye and his wife, Hippolytaprotest, 'And on hir bare knees adoun they falle, And wolde have kist his feet ther as he stood; Till at the laste aslaked was his mood'. Russell Flint illustrates the scene when Emelye and Hippolyta beg Theseus for mercy.