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Summary

Charles Fairfax Murray: The Last Parting of Helga and Gunnlaug (

)

Artist



Alternative names	Fairfax Murray; Charles Murray; C. Fairfax Murray; fairfax murray
Description	painter, art dealer, art collector and art historian
Date of birth/death	1849 / 25 February 1842	24 January 1919 / 1919
Location of birth/death	Bow, near London	London
Work location	Rome, Siena, Pisa, Venice, Florence, England
Authority file	: Q12062202 VIAF: 37807295 ISNI: 0000000081172998 ULAN: 500012065 LCCN: n80139392 NLA: 44569040 WorldCat

Title

The Last Parting of Helga and Gunnlaug

Object type

painting

Description

English: The subject of this painting is an Icelandic tale of two star-crossed lovers. Despite her love for Gunnlaug, Helga is forced to marry another. The two male suitors engage in a bloody fight that ends in both their deaths.

Date

circa 1880-1885

Medium

oil on cardboard

Dimensions

height: 12 in (30.4 cm); width: 26.5 in (67.3 cm)
with frame: 18.5 × 33 in (46.9 × 83.8 cm)

Collection

Delaware Art Museum (Inventory)

	Native name	Delaware Art Museum
	Location	Wilmington
	Coordinates	39° 45′ 55″ N, 75° 33′ 54″ W
	Established	1912
	Website	delart.org
	Authority file	: Q1183941 VIAF: 141884722 ISNI: 0000000404754627 LCCN: n79113825 OSM: 1274726 SUDOC: 091566312 WorldCat

Accession number

DAM 1935-17

Credit line

Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935

References

Delaware Art Museum

Source/Photographer

https://sagathingpodcast.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/episode-9b-the-saga-of-gunnlaug-serpent-tongue-judgments/

Other versions

The Last Parting of Helga and Gunnlaug: watercolour in Sotheby's, London, 15 July 2015, lot 13

Licensing

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:

The author died in 1919, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	23:12, 11 November 2015		800 × 374 (118 KB)	Micione	from same source
	20:26, 30 November 2014		500 × 234 (55 KB)	Frukost the Viking	User created page with UploadWizard

File usage

The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Usage on bg.wikipedia.org
- Сага за Гунлауг Змийския език
Usage on fi.wikipedia.org
- Gunnlaugr Käärmeenkielen saaga
Usage on pl.wikipedia.org
- Saga o Gunnlaugu Wężowym Języku
Usage on pt.wikipedia.org
- Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu
Usage on www.wikidata.org
- Q1361715