This medieval genre subject shows a young man restrained from attacking a mature rival who woos two ladies with flowers and music. Linton’s engraving reproduces a painting that William Cave Thomas exhibited at the Manchester Institution in 1857, and the print appeared in the "Illustrated Times" accompanied by a long critical review.
Credit: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2016
September 12, 1857
Wood engraving
21.9 x 24.6cm
2016.774.4
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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