#27 Lady Godiva by John Maler Collier
Lady Godiva portrays Lady Godiva on her well-known ride through Coventry, England. Painted in 1898, it is in the style of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Lady Godiva was a late Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who is well documented as the wife of the Earl of Mercia and a patron of various churches and monasteries. Today, she is mainly remembered for a legend dating back at least to the 13th century, in which she rode naked, covered only in her lengthy hair, through the streets of Coventry. She took this action to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation that her husband, Leofric, imposed on his tenants.
The name “Peeping Tom” for a voyeur originates from later versions of this legend, in which a man named Thomas watched her ride and was struck blind or dead.
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