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This exhibition was held at the Walker Art Gallery in 2003/4.

'Sir Tristram and la Belle Ysoude drinking the love potion', Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Stained glass window showing a man kissing a woman's hand

Stained glass panel, made 1862-3, 68.5 x 63cm, Bradford Art Gallery

Sir Tristram is bringing Ysoude by boat to Cornwall to marry King Mark. During the voyage they drank the love potion that was intended for Ysoude to drink with King Mark and they fell deeply in love.

From the same series as 'The fight between Sir Tristram and Sir Marhaus'