Edward Robert Hughes
The Princess Out of School
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Framed size: 17 × 11 in
Solid wood frame
Exhibition canvas
Removable acrylic glass
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This is a framed canvas reproduction of a painting by Edward Robert Hughes completed in England, c. 1901.
History & Materials
The story
Hughes paired this painting with lines from Keats’s Endymion:
“Under her favourite bower’s quiet shade,
On her own couch, new made of flower leaves.”
In the poem, the couch belongs to Peona, who brings her troubled brother Endymion there to rest. He falls asleep holding her fingertips.
The original
Gouache and watercolor with some scratching out.
52 × 95.3 cm (sheet).
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
The reproduction
Printed with archival pigment inks on Epson Exhibition Canvas Matte.
Antiqued solid-wood frame with raised flowers and leaves.
Removable acrylic glass.
Print size: approx. 14 × 8 in.
Framed size: 17 × 11 in.
Frame depth: 0.9 in.
Look closer
The Discarded School Cap
The title points to Tennyson’s The Princess, in which Princess Ida founds a college for women and bars men from its gate. Hughes painted this truant in 1901, 32 years after Cambridge’s first women’s college opened.
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