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English: Mazeppa and the wolves
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James G. S. Lucas, after Horace Vernet |
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| Title |
English: Mazeppa and the wolves |
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| Date | 1831 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | engraving on mezzotint print | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 35 cm (13.7 in); width: 44.5 cm (17.5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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78.2010 |
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| Object history | Gift of Professor Virginia Spate 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | The subject illustrates an episode from Lord Byron’s poem Mazeppa (1819). Mazeppa was a Ukrainian page who was punished for his illicit affair with a noblewoman by being tied naked to the back of a wild stallion and sent galloping across uninhabited plains and through dangerous forests. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | Art Gallery of New South Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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