Embossed Copper Plate

Beautiful embossed copper plate depicting the famous scene of the furious Roland when Roger frees Angélique Angélique is a heroine of Boiardo, then of Ariosto's furious Roland. She was a princess of the kingdom of Cathay, India. Then she was brought by Roland to France who wanted her to fall in love with him. However, not loving him, she took advantage of the defeat of the Christians to escape her many suitors; to which are then added Renaud, Ferragus and Sacripant. But she is captured by pirates who abandon her on an island to offer her as food to the Sea Orca. Roger then intervenes, on the Hippogriff, to save it this copper plate in very good condition shows angelic clinging to the rocks just before the arrival of its savior, XIXth