[Vision pronouncing Theodore the true heir of Alfonso] [art original]

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Title: [Vision pronouncing Theodore the true heir of Alfonso] [art original]
Creator: Wright, John Massey, 1777-1866, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1866]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with Manfred, Theodore, and several other characters in the foreground drawing back in fear from the vision appearing behind them, shielding themselves with their arms. This vision, apperaring within the ruins of a castle wall that has been toppled, includes the ghostly form of Alphonso, in full armor, surrounded by smoke and accompanied by a monk
Description: Title devised by curator.
Signed by the artist in lower right corner.
Date of production based on artist's death date.
Page reference written in ink below lower right corner of image: P. 239.
Bound in opposite page 239 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
Provenance: Former owners include E.V. Utterson, Samuel Addington, and Lord Aldenham. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Maggs, August 1933.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 13.8 x 11 cm, on sheet 23.2 x 15 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 24 17 791P Copy 3
Collection Title: Opposite page 239. Castle of Otranto.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].

Genre: Illustrations
Watercolors British 19th century
Material: watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic): Ghosts
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Illustrations
Ghosts
British > 19th century
Utterson, Edward Vernon, 1776?-1856 > Ownership
Addington, Samuel > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: John Massey Wright, Vision Pronouncing Theodore the True Heir of Alfonso. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.