[Mathilda, scene showing stabbing] [art original].
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Lewis Walpole Library > [Mathilda, scene showing stabbing] [art original].
11001129
Description
- Title
- [Mathilda, scene showing stabbing] [art original].
- Creator
- Greatheed, Bertie, 1781-1804, artist
- Published / Created
- [1796]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
-
The scene in the church after Manfred has stabbed his daughter Mathilda. She lies on a cot as Theodore holds her head in his hands; a monk with a crucifix in his hand also attends her. Behind the monk, Manfred with arms crossed against his chest looks down in anguish. In the background (right) the right arm of the statue of Alfonso the Good points down accusatorily at the scene unfolding below his tomb
- Description
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Title devised by curator.
Date based on Horace Walpole's letter (dated 22 February 1796) to Bertie Greatheed's father in which he admires his son's four drawings that were inspired by his reading of The Castle of Otranto. All four drawings are bound in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of The Castle of Otranto (Lewis Walpole Library 49 3729). - Provenance
- Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day vii, lot 76 (with Italian translation of 1795), to Payne & Foss, £1.11.6 [London, 1030]; Puttick, 1 May 1884 (Gosford Sale), lot 3071, to Harvey, £7; Christie's, 1 April 1897 (Reginald Cholmondeley Sale), lot 114, to Quaritch, £11.5.0; thence to John W. Ford, who owned this copy in 1905; Sotheby's, 21 May 1909 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 362, to B. F. Stevens, £15.5.0; Anderson, 19 January 1912 (Hoe Sale, Part 2), lot 3420, $60; Sotheby's, 10 December 1913 (Hoe Books), lot 173, to Edwards, £7; thence to the Earl of Cromer. Sold by Edwards, March 1937, to W.S. Lewis, for £20.
- Extent
- 1 drawing : image 216 x 142 mm, on sheet 247 x 169 mm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 49 3729
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Illustrations
Amateur works
Wash drawings British 18th century - Material
- brown ink and sepia wash ;
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic)
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Churches
Homicides
Monks
Tombs & sepulchral monuments - Subjects
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Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Illustrations
Churches
Homicides
Monks
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Bertie Greatheed, Mathilda, Scene Showing Stabbing. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 11146703
- Object ID (OID)
- 11001129
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