1872 Wood Engraving Mary Ancel William Makepeace Thackeray Love Romance XGCA9 YALD1 Academy Award winner and holder

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1872 Wood Engraving Mary Ancel William Makepeace Thackeray Love Romance XGCA9 YALD1 Academy Award winner and holderThis is an original 1872 black and white wood engraving of a sketch by English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 1863) which accompanies the story of the fair Mary Ancel, a maiden from Alsace Lorraine, France. The youth embracing her in the illustration was her cousin, they were extremely fond on one another. The man about to smack him is her father, Edward. Although their love was requited, they never married, as circumstance saw it fit to