kecobe:Benjamin West (American; 1738–1820)The Cave of DespairOil on canvas, 1772Yale Center for Brit
kecobe:Benjamin West (American; 1738–1820)The Cave of DespairOil on canvas, 1772Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, ConnecticutThat darkesome cave they enter, where they find That cursed man, low sitting on the ground, Musing full sadly in his sullein mind; His griesie lockes, long growen, and unbound, Disordred hong about his shoulders round, And hid his face; through which his hollow eyne Lookt deadly dull, and stared as astound; His raw-bone cheekes, through penurie and pine, Were shronke into his jawes, as he did never dine.(Sir Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene; Book I, Canto 9) -- source link