Study of a Figure in the Court of Queen Mab (3)
Image Description
In this pastel drawing on black paper a female-presenting figure is depicted seated, wearing a ruff and draped in ivy. They have a small pair of horns on their head. At the top of the page is some gold text with these lines from Percy Shelley’sQueen Mab:
Nature rejects the monarch, not the man;
The subject, not the citizen; for kings
And subjects, mutual foes, forever play
A losing game into each other’s hands,
Whose stakes are vice and misery.
Artist’s Notes
The third of a mini-series of Studies from the Court of Queen Mab.
Nature rejects the monarch, not the man;
The subject, not the citizen; for kings
And subjects, mutual foes, forever play
A losing game into each other’s hands,
Whose stakes are vice and misery.Queen Mab by Shelley
Model’s pronouns: they/them.