La Belle Dame sans Merci

Title: La Belle Dame sans Merci
Rights: The British Museum, Creative Commons 4.0.
Creator: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
Date: 1855
Description: Unfinished drawing showing a knight and a lady on horseback. The knight is kissing the lady's right hand and her hair is wrapped around his neck, resembling Lilith's strangling hair motif. The fifth stanza of a poem by Keats is written in pencil on the right side: "I set her on my pacing steed/ And nothing else saw all day long/ For sideways would she lean & sing/ A fairies' song."
Format: Drawing. Ink and graphite on paper. 432 mm x 332 mm.
Language: English
Publisher: The British Museum
Contributor: Shaelyn Fett
Identifier: 1910,1210.2.
Subject: La Belle Dame sans Merci; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Horseback; Knight; Hair; Strangling; Lilith; Keats; Poem.
Source: Jpeg file. Unknown photographer. The British Museum Digital Collection. Accessed 10/17/2023. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1910-1210-2.

Item sets: Lilith: The Demonization of Female Power and Sexuality-Shaelyn F.