Leonora has slept uneasily

Artist: Daniel Maclise

Engraver: John Thompson

1847

Source: Cameron (unnumbered pages)

Leonara has had a troubled sleep in the first stanza of Julia Margaret Cameron's translation of Gottfried Augustus Bürger's popular Gothic ballad, Lenore. Amid a frame of poppy-heads, an imp or goblin touches her on the shoulder, while others watch and play. She fears that her beloved William is "false or slain" because he is late returning from battle.

Image capture and text by Jacqueline Banerjee.

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