Mazeppa: pl. 1 - Print, Library of Congress collection

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.

Printed at bottom center: 91.
Publication date based on copyright statement on item.
Inscribed in ink on bottom: 54. Deposited in the Clerk's Office for the So. Dist. of New York Oct. 19, 1846.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4449
Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).