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Queen Eleanor sucking the poison from King Edward's arm. Coloured stipple etching by Wynne Ryland, 1780, after A. Kauffman.
- Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807.
- Date
- 1 March 1780
- Reference
- 18578i
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Credit: Queen Eleanor sucking the poison from King Edward's arm. Coloured stipple etching by Wynne Ryland, 1780, after A. Kauffman. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
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Description
According to a story spread by the description in Paul de Rapin, L'histoire d'Angleterre, 1724-1727, Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I, saved her husband's life by sucking poison from his arm in 1274
Publication/Creation
London (no. 159 Strand) : W.W. Ryland, 1 March 1780.
Physical description
1 print : stipple etching, with printing ink
Lettering
Eleanora sucking the venom out of the wound which Edward I, her royal consort, received from a poisoned dagger by an assassin in Palestine. Gulielmus Wynne Ryland chalcographus regis Britannia sculp. ; Angelica Kauffman ex academia Regali artium Londini pinxt. ...
Lettering note
Lettering continues: "Rapin's Hist. vol. III, p. 179. Dedicated to the Queen by her Majesty's dutiful and most obedient humble servant. W. Wynne Ryland."
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 18578i
Type/Technique
Languages
- English
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