Monks and Nuns Tumble

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The monks and the nuns tumble — The monks and the nuns in the dead of the night
Tumble, all of them, out of their beds in affright.

Artist

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

Illustration

Subject:: Narratives
Technique:: Color process
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: California Digital Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: The Ingoldsby legends (Rackham)
Author(s):: Ingoldsby, Thomas (Richard Harris Barham)
Publisher:: London, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., J. M. Dent & Co., 1907
Open Library:: View record.

Description

A short monk holds a lantern in the viewer’s direction, looking puzzled, as other monks and nuns gather around him, looking towards us with an expression of surprise on their faces.

Keywords: 1900s, 20th century, clerical, color, frightened, J. M. Dent, night, surprise, The Ingoldsby legends