Rien wrote: I have looked at the picture again and changed a bit. First I thought Tatterdemalion and a junketer was one person, but a tatterdemalion is a guy with old ragged clothes. I cannot think of any figure than the one next to the dragonfly. A junketer is a person who wants to get in favour with politicians etc. So I think the guy sitting next to the senator is the junketer. I still think the nymph in yellow is the one I first thought it was. See the new picture. ________________________________________ Thanks for the new pic. RE your nymph choice ... still not certain (possible gender problem with it) - such a tiny character, but appears to be female and Freddie indicates a "fellow." So just not sure what to make of it. As for the rest ... beleive it works.
Rien · Member since
Keep in mind that every sentence can point out another figure. Freddie is looking at the picture and telling what figures he sees.
Nymph in yellow What a quaere fellow
He's talking about 2 different figures, just as I said about "Tatterdemalion and a junketer" I always thought he meant: Tatterdemalion WITH a junketer. Now I see these are 2 different figures too.
queenUSA · Member since
Sorry Rien but it cannot be. The Nymph in yellow and fellow ARE connected. He is explaining further about the Nymph in this case. The fact that it rhymes is not the only indicator of a connection. Without the first part (Nymph in Yellow) - the 2nd part would make no sense on it's own, it would just be floating there by itself. So you have to consider that a gender is, in fact, assigned to the Nymph when Freddie deliberately states "fellow." That is why the original character I stated earlier as the potential Nymph could work on several levels: 1) Has Nymph wings - so is a Nymph of some kind 2) Wears a dress and has red lips, yet the face is manish compared with other females in the painting, who have softer conventional female features 3) The contradictions between the dress and the character of the face, I believe, may have led Freddie to point this character out as a rather strange type of fellow (not what a person expects upon meeting a Nymph). 4) The scale of this particular character in the painting matches the scale of other significant characters mentioned ... with the exception of Queen Mab. 5) Not too many characters are mentioned more than once in the song ... but the Nymph in yellow is mentioned 2x so it must have jumped out to Freddie that the Nymph needed to be a part of the song. Consider too that the Nymph is actually looking outward, while other characters look at the Feller or to the ground, this curious gaze may have further caught Freddie's attention. 6) And finally, let us contrast this Nymph with Freddie's own design of Nymphs used in the Queen crest, which are attractive female Nymphs. This too may have caused Freddie to wonder why Dadd would paint such a curious looking Nymph (see points #2 & 3 above).
Just my thoughts - but you can believe otherwise as the world of Nymphs is vast and probably unknown ultimately.
Rien · Member since
For the first time in your posts I read about a poem, Richard Dadd had written to explain the picture. I did not know of it's existence. But I've found it, and will read it. Get back to you later :-)
