| Image title: | Young Bekie |
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| Source: | Rackham, Arthur: “Some British Ballads” (1919) |
| Place shown: | Paris, France |
| Keywords: | interiors, prisons, animals, people, chains, colour, spooky |
| Status: | out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested |
Notes: |
The picture shows a young man lying on the floor of a prison cell or castle dungeon [donjon], his hands on his head, and with one ankle chained to the wall. There are a great number of rats or mice in the chamber. I take the location depicted from the following lines: “He had nae been i’ the court of France |
| Dimensions: | 125 x 153mm (4.9 x 6.0 inches) |
| Filename: | 010-Young-Beckie-q75-776x980.jpg |
| Blog image: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/1d/010-Young-Beckie-q75-396x500.jpg |
| Blog link: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/1d/pages/010-Young-Beckie/ |
| Painter: | Arthur Rackham (1867 – 1939) |
| Scanner dpi: | 1400 |
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