File:Damsel John - Charles Green.png

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English: Wood engraving illustration for the poem "Damsel John" by Manley Hopkins. Once a Week magazine, volume 8, page 490. In this narrative poem, the knight Damsel John loves a low-born woman. He goes on crusade and while he is away, his father finds out about his mis-matched beloved and gets a "false lord" to abduct her so that Damsel John will never see her again. In this illustration, the false lord has hold of the young woman's hair and is dragging her beside his horse.
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Source Internet Archive
Author
Charles Green  (1840–1898)  wikidata:Q5078398 s:en:Author:Charles Green
 
Charles Green
Alternative names
Charles I Green; C. Green
Description painter and illustrator
Date of birth/death 1840 Edit this at Wikidata 1898 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Hampton
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creator QS:P170,Q5078398
engraved by
Joseph Swain  (1820–1909)  wikidata:Q16856885 s:en:Author:Joseph Swain (1820-1909)
 
Joseph Swain
Alternative names
J. Swain
Description British engraver
Date of birth/death 29 February 1820 Edit this at Wikidata 25 February 1909 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Oxford Ealing
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creator QS:P170,Q16856885

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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"Fiend-like, jeering her distress,/Grasping hard her golden tress,/Rides that false lord, merciless."

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25 April 1863Gregorian

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