This painting shows the poet percy bysshe shelley and mary godwin, writer of frankenstein, at the time of their love affair in 1814. Frith, who announced himself 'a worshipper of shelley, and [one who had] read everything respecting him that came in my way', described how in preparation for the present painting he visited the house of shelley's son at boscombe in dorset, where he studied portraits of the poet and of mary, and upon which he based their likenesses. Object Type: painting. Dimensions: 64 by 50.5cm.; 25¼ by 20in.. Medium: oil on canvas. THE LOVER'S SEAT )
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