[Matilda and young stranger speaking from the windows] [art original].[ca. 1800]engA scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the characters Matilda and Theodore speaking to one another from windows on separate levels of the castle. One facade of the castle is shown, with two trees growing in the foreground and additional trees, fields, hills, and a pond visible in the distance on the right. Matilda can be seen in the open half of an arched window on the upper floor; she looks outward, her arm propped against the opposite side of the window. Theodore, in a similar pose, looks out from the open window on the level belowTitle devised by curator.Unsigned; artist not identified.Date of production supplied by curator.Mounted opposite page 69 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].