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Colma Discovering the Dead Bodies of Salgar and her Brother
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Colma Discovering the Dead Bodies of Salgar and her Brother

Bartolomeo Pinelli · 1809 · pen; brush; paper; ink; chalk

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Pinelli was best known for his illustrations of classical writings such as the Aeneid and the Divine Comedy. In 1809 he made several large drawings of scenes from the Ballads of Ossian, a sensational forgery from 1762 of Scottish-Gaelic epic poems supposedly from the 3rd century.

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Credit lineColma Discovering the Dead Bodies of Salgar and her Brother. 1809. Bartolomeo Pinelli. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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