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there dwells sweet love and constant chastity, unspotted faith & comely womanhood, regard of honour and mild modesty, there virtue reigns as queen in royal throne
1 tapestry (6 panels) : textile, colored thread, color paint ; 66 x 220 cm
A 6 panel amateur tapestry, hand stitched, painted and stencilled. Artist not identified. Left hand side lists Spenser's 6 virtues of the Faerie queene "Holiness, Temperance, Chastity, Friendship, Justice, Courtesy" with the names of the heroes "St. George, Sir Guyon, Britomart, Sir Artegall" and the right hand side lists the vices of "Hypocrisy, Falsehood, Teachery, Pride, Mammon, Idleness" with his villains "Duessa, Archimago, Sir Turpine, Acrasia". The names "Gloriana" (also known as the Faerie queene) and "Prince Arthur" also embroidered.
Title from embroidered text; line from Spenser's marriage ode "Epithalamion" originally published in 1595.
Images seem to be copied from the color plates by Rose Le Quesne featured in "Stories from the Faerie queen" by Jean Lang, published between 1900 and 1910. The 6 panels are from the stories: Una and the lion, St. George and the dragon, Britomart and the magic mirror, The quest of Sir Guyon, Pastorella, Cambell and Triamond. Only St. George and the dragon deviates significantly from Le Quesne's illustration.