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. Date: 25 April 1863.
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