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Keywords: George Wilson - The Spring Witch.jpg Artwork Creator George Wilson en Very little is known about the painter George Wilson He was associated with a group of artists and writers who called themselves The Brotherhood united in their admiration of artist-poets Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Blake The subject of Spring Witch is loosely based on the myth of Persephone who captured by Hades god of the underworld was granted freedom by Zeus on the condition that she had not partaken of any food while imprisoned beneath the earth a promise which she did not keep She is shown here on the day of her release emerging into the early Spring Wilson takes full advantage of the season filling the foreground with new-flowering plant matter depicted with Ruskinian attention to detail see references ~ 1880 oil on canvas in 42 31 5 <br /> frame dim in 54 5 43 25 Institution Delaware Art Museum place of discovery object history exhibition history credit line F V du Pont Acquisition Fund and Gift of Mark and Jill Willcox 1992 accession number DAM 1992-2 place of creation http //www preraph org/images/artwork/large/1992-2 jpg http //emuseum delart org 8080/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/items 0040 8174 Delaware Art Museum Custom license marker 2015 11 12 PD-old-auto-1923 1890 George Wilson Persephone in post-antique art Paintings of spring Pre-Raphaelite paintings of women Pre-Raphaelite paintings of mythology 19th-century oil on canvas paintings in the United States Paintings in Delaware Art Museum 1880s oil on canvas paintings in the United States 1880s mythological paintings Uploaded with UploadWizard
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