Casanova being hit by a stone and mocked by a child
Giacomo Casanova depicted as an elderly man coming back from the library. During his departure, Casanova is struck by a stone by a child who then begins to point and laugh due to his strange appearance. Casanova became a librarian in 1785 to Count Joseph Karl von Waldstein, a chamberlain of the emperor, in the Castle of Dux, Bohemia
Picture No
11033305
Media ID
46101261
Size
4476px x 4945px
(3.5MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Illustration by Fortunino Matania in Britannia and Eve, July 1931
Date
1785
