The Wedding of St George and the Princess Sabra, 1857. Sabra threads a lock of her hair through St George's helmet; in the corner is the severed head of the dragon he has just killed to rescue her. Jane Burden was the model for Sabra. Painting in the collection of the Tate Gallery, London. From "Pre-Raphaelite Painters" by Robin Ironside, with a descriptive catalogue by John Gere. [The Phaidon Press Ltd, London, 1948]

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