Queen Eleanor sucking the poison from King Edward's arm. Coloured stipple etching by W. Wynne Ryland, 1780, after A. Kauffman.

  • Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807.
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1 March 1780
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18580i
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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

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London (no. 159 Strand) : W.W. Ryland, 1 March 1780.

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1 print : stipple etching, printed in sanguine

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Eleanora sucking the venom out of the wound which Edward I , her royal consort, received from a poisoned dagger by an assassin in Palestine. Rapin's Hist. vol. III, p. 179. Gulielmus Wynne Ryland chalcographus regis Britannia sculp. ; Angelica Kauffman ex academia Regali artium Londini pinxt. ... Lettering continues: "Dedicated to the Queen by her Majesty's dutiful and most obedient humble servant. W. Wynne Ryland."

References note

M. Myrone, Bodybuilding: reforming masculinities in British art, 1750-1810, London 2005, pl. 163

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Wellcome Collection 18580i

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