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TITLE:    Love's Labours Lost
ARTIST: Edwin Longsden Long (1829-1891)
SIZE:       62" x 42"
PIECES:  6000
PRICE:    $78
MADE BY: Educa
DESCRIPTION:  Edwin Long made a specialty of elaborate genre pictures of ancient Egypt. The carefully detailed furnishings in this painting suggest a familiarity with ancient Egyptian artifacts, and Long did, in fact, travel to Egypt in 1874. Yet, like many Orientalist painters, Long rarely drew from memory, choosing instead to rely upon descriptions in books, photographs, or objects in the collection of, for example, the British Museum. This painting was completed in 1885 and hangs in the Dahesh Museum of Art in Greenwich, Connecticut.