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King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid  1884

by Edward Burne-Jones

The African king Cophetua sits at the feet of a beggar woman. He had disdained women until he met her and fell in love at first sight, vowing to make her his queen. This is the moment when love transcends class and reason. Edward Burne Jones was partly inspired by Alfred Tennyson’s poem The Beggar Maid. He also believed in the transforming power of the act of looking and t...
Size: 
2934 x 1359 mm
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of Tate Britain (Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported))