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Lady Godiva

Image credit: Herbert Art Gallery & Museum

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This is a copy of an original work painted in 1892 by Edmund Blair Leighton. Leighton based his painting very closely on Tennyson's poem. He chose the episode where Godiva pleads with Leofric to lift the tax on the people of Coventry. In this scene he has just challenged her to ride naked through the streets.

Leighton tried to make his painting historically accurate. He dressed the characters in what he believed to be authentic Saxon clothes and placed them in a convincing looking setting. Many other artists who painted the Godiva story did not concern themselves about this.

Herbert Art Gallery & Museum

Coventry

Title

Lady Godiva

Date

1902

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 126 x W 153 cm

Accession number

VA.1965.0021

Acquisition method

purchased, 1965

Work type

Painting

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