Britomart's Releasing Amoret
date: label: date made
content: ca 1863
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: black and white stereograph by Charles E. Goodman mounted on grey cardstock; printed on verso "Britomart's Releasing Amoret. / "So Mightily she smote him that to ground / He fell halfe dead; next stroke him should have slaine, / Had not the Lady, which by him stood bound, / Dernly unto her called to abstaine / From doing him dy; for else her paine / Should be remidilesse; sith none but hee / Which wrought it could the same recure againe; Therewith she stayed her hand, loth stayd to bee; For life she him envyde, and long'd revenge to see. / And to him said; Thou wicked man, whose meed / For so huge mischiefe and vile villany / Is death, or if that ought doe death exceed, / Be sure that nought may save thee from to dy; But if that thou this dame do presently / Restore into her health and former state; / This doe, and live; els dye undoubtedly. / He, glad of live, that lookt for death but late, / Did yield himselfe right willing to prolong his date." / Spenser's "Faerie Queene.""; image of a small sculpted figurine with a sign along the base that reads "Britamartis Releasing Amaret. / Spenser's Faerie Queene."; image of a small sculpture of a woman standing over a man, holding him by the neck
topic: label: Subject
content: Sculpture
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.3033.0506
label: nonaccession number
content: 2012.3033
label: catalog number
content: 2012.3033.0506
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stereograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm