Edward Robert Hughes (1851-1914) Bertuccio's Bride signed and dated 'E.R. Hughes 1895' and signed and extensively inscribed on the artist's label attached to the reverse 'Bertuccio's Bride./Bertuccio ransoms with part of his inheritance/the body of a gentleman from his murderers and/with the residue frees from robbers a maiden who unknown to him is a princess. She is soon reclaimed/but before leaving makes a contract of bethrothal/with Bertuccio. By the aid of a mysterious knight/he meets, and with whom he changes clothes, he/brings her home as his bride, and they meet the knight./Bertuccio is about to divide with him, according to their pact, the wedding gifts, when everything is given/up by the knight who proves to be the grateful spirit/of the murdered gentleman./The Nights of Straparola. W.G. Waters translation./E.R. Hughes. R.W.S./27 a Cathcart Road. S.W.'; pencil and watercolour with scratching out 39½ x 30in. (1003 x 761mm.)
Edward Robert Hughes (1851-1914) Bertuccio's Bride signed and dated 'E.R. Hughes 1895' and signed and extensively inscribed on the artist's label attached to the reverse 'Bertuccio's Bride./Bertuccio ransoms with part of his inheritance/the body of a gentleman from his murderers and/with the residue frees from robbers a maiden who unknown to him is a princess. She is soon reclaimed/but before leaving makes a contract of bethrothal/with Bertuccio. By the aid of a mysterious knight/he meets, and with whom he changes clothes, he/brings her home as his bride, and they meet the knight./Bertuccio is about to divide with him, according to their pact, the wedding gifts, when everything is given/up by the knight who proves to be the grateful spirit/of the murdered gentleman./The Nights of Straparola. W.G. Waters translation./E.R. Hughes. R.W.S./27 a Cathcart Road. S.W.'; pencil and watercolour with scratching out 39½ x 30in. (1003 x 761mm.)
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