[Theodore searching the caves for Isabella] [art original]

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Title: [Theodore searching the caves for Isabella] [art original]
Creator: Willyams, Cooper, 1762-1816, artist
Published / Created: [April 1787]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the character Theodore depicted full-length on the right, wearing armor and holding a shield in his left arm, facing left and holding a sword out in front of him. He stands beside the entrance to a cave on the left, the interior of which is shrouded in darkness. Small rocks and a broken tree trunk are in the foreground; tree branches, two birds, and a cloud-filled sky are seen above
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Signed and dated by the artist in ink in lower right corner.
Tipped in opposite page 120 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. London : Printed for Tho. Lownds in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXV [1765].
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Horace G. Commins, January 1964.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 16.4 x 10 cm, on sheet 17.1 x 11 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 24 17 765 Copy 4
Collection Title: Opposite page 120. Castle of Otranto.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: London : Printed for Tho. Lownds in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXV [1765].

Genre: Illustrations
Book illustrations
Watercolors British 18th century
Material: watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic): Armor
Daggers & swords
Caves
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Illustrations
Armor
Daggers & swords
Caves
British > 18th century

Access: Public
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Citation: Cooper Willyams, Theodore Searching the Caves for Isabella. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.