The Flight of Florimell
Artist	Washington Allston
Year	1819
Type	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	91.4 cm × 71.1 cm (36.0 in × 28.0 in)
Location	Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

The Flight of Florimell is an 1819 oil painting by the American artist Washington Allston. It depicts a scene from The Faerie Queene by the Elizabethan Era English poet Edmund Spenser.^[1][2] Romantic in style, it is distinctly Gothic in tone with a frightened heroine being pursued on horseback.^[3]

Today the painting is in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts in Michigan, having been acquired in 1944.^[4]

References

Bibliography

• Carson, Kerry Dean. American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature. University of Wales Press, 2014.
• Palmer, Allison Lee. Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.
• Salmon, Robin B. Brookgreen Gardens. Arcadia, 2006.

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