The Petition to the King shows townspeople presenting the king with a basket of bones, the dragon's latest victims, pleading for a solution. The king deliberates and will soon declare that lots must be drawn by the young women...
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898). English artist. and In Princess Sabra Drawing the Lot, the young women draw a lot from a bag to decide which one is to be sacrificed to the dragton. The king's daughter, Sabra, picks the...
This work is a highly detailed and realistic landscape painting. It depicts a river view, with the river in the background, and there are trees and hills in the foreground. The background is light, while the foreground is dark...