"Graziella" - painted by R. Lehmann - from the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1856. Engraving of a painting. 'This is one of Lamartine's prettiest word-pictures, exquisitely transferred to canvas by Rudolph Lehmann, of Rome. Lamartine relates in his autobiographical "Confidences" that having, during a youthful freak, been wrecked in a fishing-boat in the Greek isle of Procida, he and his companions were fed, clothed, and sheltered by a fisherman's family. One evening he read to them the story of "Paul and Virginia".' From "Illustrated London News", 185
"Graziella" - painted by R. Lehmann - from the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1856. Engraving of a painting. 'This is one of Lamartine's prettiest word-pictures, exquisitely transferred to canvas by Rudolph Lehmann, of Rome. Lamartine relates in his autobiographical "Confidences" that having, during a youthful freak, been wrecked in a fishing-boat in the Greek isle of Procida, he and his companions were fed, clothed, and sheltered by a fisherman's family. One evening he read to them the story of "Paul and Virginia".' From "Illustrated London News", 1856.
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Photo credit: © The Print Collector / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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