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Lady Godiva by John Collier, c. 1897, in the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry. Lady Godiva: Edmund Blair Leighton depicts her moment of decision (1892). Lady Godiva (/ ɡ ə ˈ d aɪ v ə /; died between 1066 and 1086), in Old English Godgifu, was a late Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who is relatively well documented as the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, and a patron of various churches and ...
The statue depicts Lady Godiva on her naked ride through the city to protest her husband’s oppressive taxes.The plinth is inscribed with passages from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem Godiva along with a dedication from William Bassett-Green to Lady Godiva and the people of Coventry.
Godiva Preparing to Ride through Coventry is an 1833 history painting by the British artist George Jones. It depicts Lady Godiva, the eleventh century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman known for her naked ride through Coventry. Jones was a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars and best known for his battle paintings. [1]
The West aka The Virgin West: marble Wisconsin State Capitol Madison, Wisconsin: also displayed at the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876: Woman's Building (Rotunda): America [13] marble 1870 State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines Woman's Building (Rotunda): Miriam [14] marble Private collection David Richards Near Woman's ...
Lady Godiva is an 1897 oil-on-canvas painting by English artist John Collier, [1] who worked in the style of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The portrayal of Lady Godiva and her well-known but apocryphal ride through Coventry , England, is held in Coventry's Herbert Art Gallery and Museum .
"Godiva's Hymn", "Engineer's Hymn" or "Engineers' Drinking Song" is a traditional drinking song for North American engineers. Versions of it have been associated with the Army Corps of Engineers , as well as MIT , MTU , and various other universities, [ 1 ] and is now often performed by the MIT a cappella group The Chorallaries.
Kate's Mountain, south of White Sulphur Springs in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, was named for Catherine "Kate" Carpenter, who in September 1756 took refuge with her child on the mountain's peak during an Indian attack in which her husband Nicholas Carpenter was killed near Fort Dinwiddie (also known as Byrd's Fort and Warwick's Fort [1]) in the vicinity of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
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