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Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs - Frederic William Burton (1864)
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Watercolor and gouache on paper
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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"The subject is taken from a medieval Danish ballad translated by Burton’s friend Whitley Stokes in 1855, which tells the story of Hellelil, who fell in love with her personal guard Hildebrand, Prince of Engelland. Her father disapproved of the relationship and ordered her seven brothers to kill the young prince. Burton chose to imagine a romantic moment from the story before the terrible end: the final meeting of the two lovers." From Irish National Gallery
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