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"The King and the Beggar-maid" is a 16th-century broadside ballad [1] that tells of an African king, Cophetua, and his love for the beggar Penelophon (Shakespearean Zenelophon). Artists and writers have referenced the story, and King Cophetua has become a byword for "a man who falls in love with a woman instantly and proposes marriage immediately".
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid is an 1884 painting by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones. The painting illustrates the story of ' The King and the Beggar-maid ", which tells the legend of the prince Cophetua who fell in love at first sight with the beggar Penelophon.
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid may refer to: The King and the Beggar-maid, a story; King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (painting), an 1884 painting by Edward Burne ...
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (painting) (1884), Tate Britain, London. The Pilgrim at the Gate of Idleness (1884), Dallas Museum of Art. The Morning of the Resurrection (1886), Tate Britain, London. Sibylla Delphica (1886), Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester. The Garden of Pan (c. 1886), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
After Burne-Jones' 1884 painting King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid was a great success at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, Love Among the Ruins was lent for exhibition at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1893.
Khoisan protesters surround King Willem Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands at the Iziko Slave Lodge museum in Cape Town during their state visit to South Africa Friday, Oct. 20, 2023.
The brand was one of the first Chinese mobile brands to enter Africa, leading to the moniker "Smartphone King of Africa." Besides the Africa market, Transsion also sells phones in South Asia, the ...
La Presqu’île (The Peninsula, 1970) is a collection of three short pieces by French writer Julien Gracq that takes its name from its second work, a novella, which is preceded by La Route and followed by Le Roi Cophetua (King Cophetua). The Peninsula and King Cophetua have been published separately in English by Green Integer (2011) [1] and ...