| Britomart Delivering Amoretta from the Enchantment of Busirane | |
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| Artist | Henry Fuseli |
| Year | 1824 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 183.5 cm× 153 cm(72.2 in× 60 in) |
| Location | Freies Deutsches Hochstift, Frankfurt |
Britomart Delivering Amoretta from the Enchantment of Busirane is an oil on canvas painting by Swiss painter Henry Fuseli, from 1824. It is held at the Freies Deutsches Hochstift, in Frankfurt, since 1957. [1]
The painting depicts a scene from Edmund Spenser's poem The Faerie Queene in which the female knight Britomart frees Amoretta, a beautiful woman, from her captivity at the hands of Busirane, an evil sorcerer. In Fuseli's painting, Britomart is swinging her sword as if about to kill Busirane, who is held in the ground, but in the poem, Amoretta stops Britomart from slaying the sorcerer, as he is the only one who can break the magic which is holding her captive. [2]
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