King Edward and Queen Eleanor

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Description

This terracotta sculpture depicts an apocryphal scene from the life of King Edward, in which his life was saved by his young wife, Eleanor, who sucked poison from his arm after Edward was stabbed by a would-be-assassin with a poisoned dagger during the ninth crusade

Source

https://media-management-api.tlt.harvard.edu/api/iiif/manifest/414

Collection

Commemoration, Remembrance, and Metaphor in Twenty Images

Citation

“King Edward and Queen Eleanor,” HAA Image Hosting, accessed May 11, 2026, https://haaimagehosting.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/items/show/1786.

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