H Beard Print Collection
1808
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1808
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
This print shows a dim prison cell. A guard locks a door while a woman in white stands by a small barred window. The cell has chains on the wall. It’s a scene from an opera called Elisabetta Regina d’Inghilterra. The print was made for sheet music, not a painting. You can still feel the tension in the guard’s stiff pose. Look up Sanquirico, Alessandro next.
