<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>[Frederic seeing a person kneeling before the altar] [art original].</dc:title><dc:creator>Miller, F., active 1802, artist</dc:creator><dc:date>[ca. 1802]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the character Frederic seen in the background on the left, peering around a half-open door into an oratory. In the foreground on the right is a figure, completely hidden within a hooded cloak, kneeling at an altar. An open book and a crucifix sit on the altar; light streams in from the window behind it on the right. On the back wall of the room a statue resides within a raised alcove; a chair sits below the statue, and a framed picture hangs on the wall beside it.</dc:description><dc:description>Title devised by cataloger.</dc:description><dc:description>Unsigned; artist attribution and date from signature "F. Miller 1802" on similar drawing bound in the same volume.</dc:description><dc:description>Bound in after page 222 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>