[Manfred ordering torches to be held up] [art original].

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Title: [Manfred ordering torches to be held up] [art original].
Published / Created: [ca. 1800]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the characters Manfred and Theodore standing at center and three servants holding torches standing at left. The location is a dimly-lit vault, its arched ceiling supported at intervals by short columns; Theodore points upward to a hole in the ceiling that was broken through from above. Manfred, standing beside the pointing Theodore, looks up in astonishment, leaning backwards slightly with his left arm out in front of him
Description: Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; artist not identified.
Date of production supplied by curator.
Mounted opposite page 36 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
Provenance: Formerly owned by Sir Gerald Codrington, Bart., with his armorial bookplate in the volume. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Myers, Aug. 1941.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 10.1 x 14 cm, mounted to 16.5 x 25 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 24 17 791P Copy 7
Collection Title: Opposite page 36. 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 laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic): Interiors
Ceilings
Torches
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Illustrations
Interiors
Ceilings
Torches
British > 19th century
Codrington, Gerald, Sir, bart., 1850-1929 > Ownership

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Citation: Manfred Ordering Torches to be Held Up. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.