Ethelwina kills Ruthmer (Ethelwina, t2, Buisson, 1802) - Adam after Bornet
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Description
Ethelwina has been taken prisoner in the castle of her cousin Leopold Saint-Iver, who dreams of seizing her family's wealth and possessing her. Ethelwina also discovers that her younger brother Arthur, captured at the beginning of the novel, is also a prisoner in his jailer's dungeons: she manages to get to his cell just as Leopold's servant Ruthmer arrives to murder him. Indeed, weary of Ethelwina's refusals and tormented by his past crimes, Leopold has ordered Arthur's death.
Nothing goes according to plan: just as Ruthmer is about to kill Arthur, Ethelwina intervenes and kills Ruthmer.
.1. Signed lower left, "Bornet Del.", right, "Adam Sculp."
Legend: "Seeing the danger of her brother; arming herself with the dagger that killed | her father and that never left her; Rushing upon the | ferocious assassin... it was the work of a moment. Chap XXIX."
3. This conjuring of a character's death with the foregrounding of a huge cutlass recalls other noir novel illustrations.
Technical Data
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