Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The Cave of Despair

Benjamin West
1738-1820

The Cave of Despair

13 3/4 x 16 inches (351 x 405 mm)
Graphite tracing, on paper.
1970.11:242

Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Robert H. Charles.

Notes
Watermark: D. & C. Blauw (Heawood 3268).
An illustration of Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" (Book I: The Legend of the Red Cross Knight, or of Holiness) painted by West in 1772.
Associated names
Margary, Harry, former owner.
Charles, Robert H., Mrs., donor.
Bibliography
Kraemer, Ruth S. Drawings by Benjamin West and his son Raphael Lamar West. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 206.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department