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[Lenore] [Death, disguised as William, asks her to mount his horse and ride to their marriage bed.]Plate 1. Page 21. Proof.
Drawn by Lady Diana Beauclerk. Engraved by Harding.
Publish'd June 1st 1796 by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall.
Stipple, proof before title? 280 x 395mm (11 x 15½"). Trimmed to plate, centre fold, as usual.
A scene from Gottfried August Bürger's ballad 'Lenore', written 1773. When William, Lenore's fiancé, fails to return with the Prussian army after the Battle of Prague (1757, during the Seven Years' War), she argues with God, complaining about his unfairness. At midnight 'William' appears and takes her to a graveyard, where he is revealed as Death, with scythe and hourglass; the marriage bed is a grave in which William's skeleton lies in shattered armour. One of four plates in 'Leonora. Translated from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürgher, by W. R. Spencer, Esq. With designs by the Right Honourable Lady Diana Beauclerc.' Beauclerk was the daughter of the third Duke of Marlborough.
[Ref: 60733] £130.00
Publish'd June 1st 1796 by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall.
Stipple, proof before title? 280 x 395mm (11 x 15½"). Trimmed to plate, centre fold, as usual.
A scene from Gottfried August Bürger's ballad 'Lenore', written 1773. When William, Lenore's fiancé, fails to return with the Prussian army after the Battle of Prague (1757, during the Seven Years' War), she argues with God, complaining about his unfairness. At midnight 'William' appears and takes her to a graveyard, where he is revealed as Death, with scythe and hourglass; the marriage bed is a grave in which William's skeleton lies in shattered armour. One of four plates in 'Leonora. Translated from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürgher, by W. R. Spencer, Esq. With designs by the Right Honourable Lady Diana Beauclerc.' Beauclerk was the daughter of the third Duke of Marlborough.
[Ref: 60733] £130.00