A musician in Venice is murdered before a tryst with a young woman who approaches the meeting place unaware of his death. Mezzotint by J.C. Bromley, 1836, after J.R. Herbert.

The conclusion of the poem 'The appointed hour' by R.M.S. (unidentified, unless it is Robert Southey), published (the poem, and a smaller print of the same composition) in The keepsake for 1836, edited by the Honourable Mrs Norton, London: Longman etc., 1836, pp. 130-132

Left, the woman descends a staircase. In the foreground lies the body of her murdered lover. In the right background the murderer runs away towards a gondola waiting on the canal

[London] (Haymarket) : Published ... for the proprietors, by T McLean, Septr. 1. 1836 ([London?] : Printed by Lahee & Co.)

1 print : mezzotint, with etching ; image 54.4 x 39.7 cm

The appointed hour. Away! Away! she's on the stair ... No sounds, no signals, why thus mute / The silver strings of that sweet lute, / Which his loved hand, beneath her bower / Struck soft at "the Appointed Hour". Painted by J. Herbert. Engraved by John C. Bromley

Wellcome Collection 3162951i