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(s):: La Villemarqué, Théodore Hersart de
Publisher:: Cambridge, London: Macmillan and Co., 1865
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Description

A woman harnessed to a two-wheel cart filled with corpses pulls it along the cemetery wall as she bends under the toil.

Keywords: 1860s, 19th century, black & white, death, eerie, female, Victorian, working

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