Label TextThis work was based on Jacques Jasmin’s Romantic poem L’aveugle de Castel-Culier (1835), which H.W. Longfellow translated in the 1870s. When the poem’s heroine, Marguerite, is blinded by smallpox, her fiancé abandons her to marry another. On witnessing their exchange of vows, she dies broken-hearted in church. Lawlor was based in London, where he worked on imaginative pieces and large-scale public projects, including a group entitled Engineering for the Albert Memorial.
Label TextThis work was based on Jacques Jasmin’s Romantic poem L’aveugle de Castel-Culier (1835), which H.W. Longfellow translated in the 1870s. When the poem’s heroine, Marguerite, is blinded by smallpox, her fiancé abandons her to marry another. On witnessing their exchange of vows, she dies broken-hearted in church. Lawlor was based in London, where he worked on imaginative pieces and large-scale public projects, including a group entitled Engineering for the Albert Memorial.
