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Queen Eleanor sucking the poison from King Edward's arm. Coloured stipple etching by Wynne Ryland, 1780, after A. Kauffman.
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Queen Eleanor sucking the poison from King Edward's arm. Coloured stipple etching by Wynne Ryland, 1780, after A. Kauffman.

http://data.europeana.eu/agent/61245 · 1780

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Lettering: Eleanora sucking the venom out of the wound which Edward I, her royal consort, received from a poisoned dagger by an assassin in Palestine. Gulielmus Wynne Ryland chalcographus regis Britannia sculp. ; Angelica Kauffman ex academia Regali artium Londini pinxt. ...

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