[Bianca retreating from the giant hand in armor] [art original]

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Title: [Bianca retreating from the giant hand in armor] [art original]
Creator: Miller, F., active 1802, artist
Published / Created: [1802]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the servant Bianca shown descending a staircase while looking over her right shoulder, a worried expression on her face. Her gaze is directed at the top of the stairs, where a large hand in armor is seen resting on the banister near the landing of the floor above. The arched opening to the landing is flanked on either side with a display of armor and weapons mounted on the wall. Several arched windows and doorways are seen in the shadowy background
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner.
Bound in opposite page 217 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 Edward Astle [Astley?], F.T. [Turner?], and W. Henry Hyett, with their armorial bookplates in the volume. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Bernard Quaritch, July 1948.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 13.6 x 10 cm, on sheet 24.5 x 16 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 24 17 791P Copy 9
Collection Title: Opposite page 217. Castle of Otranto.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].

Genre: Illustrations
Ink drawings British 19th century
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: gray wash with pen and brown ink ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic): Interiors
Stairways
Hands
Armor
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Illustrations
Interiors
Stairways
Hands
Armor
British > 19th century
Astle, Edward > Ownership
Hyett, William Henry 1795-1877 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: F. Miller, Bianca Retreating from the Giant Hand in Armor. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.