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A prisoner sits in his cell and carves images into the wall with a nail. Engraving by F. Bacon after E.H. Weinhert
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A prisoner sits in his cell and carves images into the wall with a nail. Engraving by F. Bacon after E.H. Weinhert

E. H. Weinhert

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Lettering: The prisoner of Gisors. ...Everyone at Gisor has heard of the unknown criminal whom state reasons now forgotten immured alive in that tomb which is still called The Prisoner's Tower... where he has perpetuated his memory in bas reliefs, executed it is said with a nail, on that part of the wall where the solitary sun-beam enabled him to see his work. Nodier, Normandie 11 141. Painted by E.H. Weinhert. Engraved by F. Bacon.

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