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The Bride of Lammermoor
Sir Edwin LandseerEnglish, 1802 - 1873
Sir Walter Scott, the most famous British novelist of the early nineteenth century, constructed a classic rescue scenario in The Bride of Lammermoor, a romance of thwarted love, murder, insanity, and suicide. Sir Edwin Landseer imagined the moment when the hero, Edgar, rushes in to save the heroine, Lucy, whose red shawl has attracted an angry bull. Edgar, armed and dark, plants a victorious foot on the animal while glowering at Lucy’s father, his mortal enemy; Lucy, in white, swoons, unaware of the identity of her mysterious hero. Engraved as the frontispiece to Scott’s novel, this image was widely circulated.
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