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1. [Manfred watching servants lift the giant helmet off his dead son] [art original]
- Creator:
- Willyams, Cooper, 1762-1816, artist
- Published / Created:
- [April 1787]
- Call Number:
- 24 17 765 Copy 4
- Collection Title:
- Opposite page 4. Castle of Otranto.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the character Manfred depicted full-length on the right, facing left with his arms out in front of him, a horrified expression on his face. He's watching six servants on the left hold an enormous black helmet topped with large black feathers; below the helmet a man lies on his back, blood on the ground surrounding his head. The castle stands in the background, with a low round tower and a crenellated wall immediately behind the figures and higher walls and towers rising in the middle distance
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Signed and dated by the artist in ink in lower left corner., and Tipped in opposite page 4 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. London : Printed for Tho. Lownds in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXV [1765].
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Helmets, Castles & palaces, and Dead persons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Manfred watching servants lift the giant helmet off his dead son] [art original]
2. [Theodore searching the caves for Isabella] [art original]
- Creator:
- Willyams, Cooper, 1762-1816, artist
- Published / Created:
- [April 1787]
- Call Number:
- 24 17 765 Copy 4
- Collection Title:
- Opposite page 120. Castle of Otranto.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the character Theodore depicted full-length on the right, wearing armor and holding a shield in his left arm, facing left and holding a sword out in front of him. He stands beside the entrance to a cave on the left, the interior of which is shrouded in darkness. Small rocks and a broken tree trunk are in the foreground; tree branches, two birds, and a cloud-filled sky are seen above
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Signed and dated by the artist in ink in lower right corner., and Tipped in opposite page 120 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. London : Printed for Tho. Lownds in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXV [1765].
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Armor, Daggers & swords, and Caves
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Theodore searching the caves for Isabella] [art original]