A man holding an oil lamp and a dagger is standing next to a woman asleep in a canopied bed; Gothic window in the background. Coloured mezzotint, ca. 1800.

Date:
1800
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573800i
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A man holding an oil lamp and a dagger is standing next to a woman asleep in a canopied bed; Gothic window in the background. Coloured mezzotint, ca. 1800. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Possibly an episode in C.F. Barrett, The black castle: or the spectre of the forest, an historical romance, London 1800, in which Asphar rapes and then murders Ravia

Publication/Creation

1800

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1 print : mezzotint, with watercolour ; image 13.9 x 14 cm

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Wellcome Collection 573800i

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