[Isabella comforting the dying knight] [art original].

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Title: [Isabella comforting the dying knight] [art original].
Published / Created: [ca. 1800]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto: Isabella standing at left in front of the mouth of a cave, her left hand held out in front of her and her right hand at her breast. On the ground in front of her lies a knight in armor wearing a red sash; Theodore, also wearing armor, stoops down and holds the hand of the injured knight. Several servants mull around behind Isabella; beyond them on the right is a forest, at the edge of which a horse waits
Description: Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; artist not identified.
Date of production supplied by curator.
Mounted opposite page 152 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 x 16 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 152. 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): Caves
Knights
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Illustrations
Caves
Knights
British > 19th century
Codrington, Gerald, Sir, bart., 1850-1929 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Isabella Comforting the Dying Knight. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.