The Poet's Dream
Artist: Faed, John, RSA · 1819-1902
The painting originally carried four lines of text on its verso face (vide McKerrow, The Faeds A Biography, p.34) which have not been traced to a speciifc poem. Contemporary newspaper reviews of the work following its exhibition at he RA (1882), RSA (1883) and the Inaugural Kirkcudbrightshire Fine Art Asscoation Exhibition (1886) frequently cite Milton, and there are paralleles with his text of Il Penseroso. The ultimate iconographic source may however lie with Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream; "“And as imagination bodies forth/ The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen/ Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing/ A local habitation and a name”
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Object data
Date c.1881 - c.1882 Accession 2006.034 Materials Support canvas Dimensions Support
104.7cm x 142.9cm
Sight
101.8cm x 138.6cm
Frame
142cm x 181.6cmMedium Paint, oil -
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