[Isabella comforting the dying knight] [art original].[ca. 1800]engA 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 waitsTitle 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].