Death unto Elliant

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A woman pulls a cart filled with corpses along the cemetery wall, bending under the toil

Death unto Elliant hath gone down.

(P. 64.)

Artist

Name:: Millais, John Everett
Dates:: 1829-1896
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: Narratives
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Engraver:: Swain, Joseph
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: Robarts Library, The Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Ballads and songs of Brittany
Author:: La Villemarqué, Théodore Hersart de
Publisher:: Cambridge, London: Macmillan and Co., 1865
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A woman harnessed to a two-wheel cart filled with corpses pulls it along the cemetery wall as she bends under the toil.

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