About this image...

Image Title: Mazeppa - Pl. 1

Creator: N. Currier (Firm),

Date: 1846

Summary: Print shows Ivan Mazepa, naked, being bound to the back of a wild horse by several men, as punishment for his affair with Countess Theresa, wife of a count who learns of the affair, shown here as the elderly man on the left, and settles upon this form of punishment for Mazepa. Includes 16 lines of verse from the poem "Mazeppa" by Lord Byron.

Subjects: Adultery--1840-1850
Horses--1840-1850
Mazepa, Ivan Stepanovych,--1639-1709
Nobility--1840-1850
Punishment & torture--1840-1850

Original Media: Lithograph

Collections: Popular Graphic Arts

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