The Passing Of Robin Hood
Hello everyone, I’m traveling to the Red Woods today to do a bit of camping. So instead of a full post, here’s a painting that I find quite sad and beautiful.
It’s called “The Passing of Robin Hood” (1917), by the American illustrator and painter N.C. Wyeth. It originally appeared in an illustrated edition of the Legend of Robin Hood.
In the painting we see Robin Hood’s final moments before his death. You can see how his closest companions are already mourning him. One of them props him up, so that Robin Hood can fire one final arrow out of the window. They’ve agreed that where the arrow lands, he will be buried.
It’s a beautiful image, sad, but noble. It gets me every time.
Julian
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