# Fedalma

- By: George Fuller (born Deerfield, MA 1822-died Brookline, MA 1884)
- Date: 1883-1884
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 42 1/8 x 30 3/8 in. (107.0 x 77.0 cm.)
- Culture: Spaniards
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=8714)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/df2d22f6ac917190d8a1faf634553d56.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This painting shows the heroine of George Eliot's poem The Spanish Gypsy. In the poem Fedalma must choose between family duty and the prospect of a happy marriage with a wealthy duke ("Women in the Literary Marketplace," Cornell Univ. Library Web site). Fuller chose to show her holding a gold necklace, a gift from the duke that symbolized the splendor he could offer her.