Count de Peltzer lying mortally wounded on his bed attended by his fiancée Mlle de Benskow, her mother and her brother, and a boy bringing soup for the dying man. Etching after H.W. Bunbury.

  • Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
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Count de Peltzer was due to marry Charlotte de Benskow on 20 June 1778, but was called away from Berlin to fight with his regiment against the Austrians in the War of the Bavarian Succession. She followed him accompanied by her mother and brother, and came across him in an inn at "Herstadt" (?) where he had been taken after being woumded in a sally. He died and she lost her mind (Sherlock, loc. cit.)

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1 print : etching ; image 14.8 x 20.8 cm

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The death of Count de Peltzer. The count de Peltzer mortally wounded by some Austrian foragers on the eve of his marriage. H. Bunbury del.

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Martin Sherlock, New letters from an English traveller, London 1781, pp. 113-117

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Wellcome Collection 42829i

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