"The King and the Beggar-maid" is a 16th-century broadside ballad [1] that tells of an African king, Cophetua, and his love for the beggar Penelophon (Shakespearean Zenelophon). Artists and …

King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid is an 1884 painting by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones. The painting illustrates the story of 'The King and the Beggar-maid", which tells …

In King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid, Edward Burne-Jones depicts the moment when, according to legend, an African king noted for his lack of interest in women, finally falls in love. …

One of Edward Burne-Jones’s greatest works is “King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid” painted in 1884. The painting tells the story of King Cophetua, who falls in love with a beggar girl named …

The tale of King Cophetua and the Beggar maid appears in Elizabethan ballads and was favoured by Victorian artists, notably by Burne-Jones (1833–1898) in his large oil depicting the story. …

The legendary African king named Cophetua was a man of great wealth who fell in love with a beautiful beggar maid dressed all in gray. The maid’s name has been alternately given as …

The African king Cophetua sits at the feet of a beggar woman. He had disdained women until he met her and fell in love at first sight, vowing to make her his queen. This is the moment when...

King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid I read that once in Affrica A princely wight did raine, Who had to name Cophetua, As poets they did faine. From natures lawes he did decline, For sure …

《科菲图国王和乞丐女仆》是美国艺术家艾伯特·平克汉姆·莱德于1906-1907年所作。

King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid. I READ that once in Affrica A princely wight did raine, Who had to name Cophetua, As poets they did faine. From natures lawes he did decline, For sure …