Ballads and Songs of Brittany—Frontispiece

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Artist

Name:: Tissot, James
Dates:: 1836-1902
Country:: France

Illustration

Subject:: Narratives
Technique:: Metal Engraving
Engraver:: Jeens, Charles Henry
Format:: Portrait (taller)
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 dressed and rendered in the medieval fashion is sitting in a Breton graveyard by the sea, holding a child in her lap and stroking a wounded horse standing behind her while a greyhound, wounded as well, snuggles up to her.

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