Brünnhilde on Grane

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A woman throws up her arms in the middle of flames that start engulfing her and her horse

Brünnhilde on Grane leaps on to the funeral pyre of Siegfried.

(Facing p. 180.)

Artist

Name:: Rackham, Arthur
Dates:: 1867-1939
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: Narratives
Technique:: Color Process
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: The New York Public Library, The Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Siegfried & the twilight of the gods
Author:: Wagner, Richard
Publisher:: London, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, William Heinemann, 1924
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A woman on horseback throws up her arms as flames from the pyre beneath her rise high, surrounding her and her horse and beginning to engulf them.

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