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Isabella and the Pot of Basil

Isabella and the Pot of Basil

William Holman Hunt

1867

Laing Art Gallery

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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Description

painting by William Holman Hunt

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Medium

oil paint

Dimensions

187 × 116.5 cm

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💡 Did you know

It depicts the heroine Isabella caressing the basil pot in which she had buried the severed head of her murdered lover Lorenzo. Hunt had drawn an illustration of the poem in 1848, shortly after the foundation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.