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Frankenstein
An adaption of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel
Long | British Gothic Novel

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The novel tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates and brings to life a monsterous creature. Unaware of the consequences, he runs away from his creation, and faces the death of some of his dearest ones as a result. The novel explores the lives of Frankenstein, but also of the Monster, and his quest for meaning.

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The novel tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates and brings to life a monsterous creature. Unaware of the consequences, he runs away from his creation, and faces the death of some of his dearest ones as a result. The novel explores the lives of Frankenstein, but also of the Monster, and his quest for meaning.

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Clement Cruttwell, A Map of the Countries Thirty Degrees Round the North Pole, 1799. Print. 36.8 cm x 38.1 cm. Atlas to Cruttwell’s Gazetteer. © 2020 Geographicus Rare Antique Maps ©Wikimedia Commons

Friedrich David Caspar, Wandering above the Sea of Fog, 1818. Oil on Canvas, 94.8 cm × 74.8 cm. Kunsthall Hamburger, Germany. © 2016 Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Ivan Aivazovsky, Iceberg in the Atlantic, 1870. Oil on Canvas. 110.5 x 130.5 cm. ©Wikiart

Friedrich David Caspar, The Sea of Ice, 1823. Oil on Canvas, 96.7 cm × 126.9 cm. Kunsthall Hamburger, Germany. © 2016 Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Gustave Courbet, The Desperate Man, ca. 1843. Oil on Canvas. 45 cm x 99 cm. Private collection. ©Wikimedia commons

Clement Cruttwell, Map of Germany and Switzerland, 1799. Print. 35.5 cm x 38.1 cm. Atlas to Cruttwell’s Gazetteer. © 2020 Geographicus Rare Antique Maps ©Wikimedia Commons

Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, Portrait of Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck and his family, 1801. Oil on Canvas. 263.5 cm x 200 cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. ©wikiart

George Romney, Emma Hart as Circe, 1782. Oil on Canvas. 53.3 cm x 49.5 cm. Tate Britain, London. © Tate, London 2020.

Paul Cézanne, Young man and Skull, 1898. Oil on Canvas. 130 cm x 97.5 cm. Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, US. © 2020 Barnes Foundation

Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Skull, 1898. Oil on Canvas. 130 cm x 97.5 cm. Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, US. © 2020 Barnes Foundation

Joseph Wright, The Alchemist discovering phosphorus or the alchemist in search of the philosophers stone, 1771. Oil on Canvas. 101.6cm x 127 cm. Joseph Wright Gallery, Derby. © Derby Museum and Art Gallery

Rembrandt, Anatomy of Doctor Deijman, 1656. Oil on Canvas. 100 cm x 134 cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. ©wikiart

Friedrich David Caspar, Graveyard under Snow, 1826. Oil on Canvas. 31 cm x 25 cm. Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig. ©2020 Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kuntstgeschichte.

Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (Fragment), 1632. Oil on Canvas. 216 cm x 165.5 cm. The Hague, Netherlands. ©Mauritshuis

Francisco Goya, The Chinchillas, 1799. Etching on paper. 21cm x 15cm. Private Collection ©wikiart

Odilon Redon, After the Execution, 1877. Charcoal on paper. Private Collection ©wikiart

Theodore Von Holst and William Chevalier (engraver), Frontispiece of Frankenstein, 1831. Steel Engraving. 9.3 cm x 7.1 cm. Private Collection ©Tate Britain.

Arturo Michelena, The Sick Child, 1886. Oil on Canvas. 80.4cm x 58 cm. Private collection. ©wikiart

Jean-Frederic Bazille, Portrait of Auguste Renoir. Oil on Canvas. 122cm x 107cm. ©Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

Carl Ludwig Hackert, Vue de Genève pris depuis Saconex en Savoie, 1872. Etching and aquatint with hand colouring. 38.3 cm x 48.6 cm. Private Collection © The Trustees of the British Museum

Francisco Goya, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, 1798. Oil on Canva. 205 cm x 133 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid. © Museo Nacional del Prado

Paul Delaroche, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1833. Oil on Canvas. 297cm x 246 cm. National Gallery, London, UK.

Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring one of his Sons, 1819. Oil on Canvas. 83cm x 146 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid. © Museo Nacional del Prado

Isaac Levitan, Range of mountains, Mont Blanc, 1897. Oil on Paper. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

George Seurat, Study for ‘Bathers at Asnieres’. Oil on wood. 15.2 x 25cm. Main Collection, The National Gallery, London.

Eugene Delacroix, The Edge of a Wood at Nohant, 1842. Watercolor. 15.5 cm x 20.5 cm. Private Collection. ©National Gallery of Art

Mykola Pymonenko, Victim of Fanaticism, 1899. Oil on Canvas. 180x224cm. Fine Art Museum, Ukraine.

Alfred Sisley, Cabin by the River Loing, Morning, 1896. Oil on Canvas. 60 cm x 73 cm. Private Collection. ©wikiart

Diego Velazquez, 1618, An old woman cooking an egg. Oil on Canvas. 100.5×119.5cm. Scottish National Gallery, UK.

David Teniers the Younger, Peasants playing Bowls outside an Village Inn. Oil on Canvas. 120.2 x 191cm. Main Collection, The National Gallery, London.

Pablo Picasso, Lovers of the street, 1900. Pastel on paper. 59cm x 35 cm. Private collection. ©Museum Picasso of Barcelona.

Gustave Courbet, The man with the Leather Belt: Portrait of the Artist. Oil on board. 45×37.8cm. Main Collection, The National Gallery, London.

Clement Cruttwell, Map of Scotland, 1799. Print. 40.6 cm x 35.5 cm. Atlas to Cruttwell’s Gazetteer. © 2020 Geographicus Rare Antique Maps ©Wikimedia Commons

Jean Andre Rixens, 1889, Esquisse pour le salon des Sciences de l’Hôtel de Ville de Paris: Le feu. Oil on Canvas. 52.2×24.4cm. Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris, France.

Francisco Goya, Simpleton plate 4 from the series ‘Los Disparates’, Engraving 35.5×24.3cm. Art gallery of South Australia.

Aleksey Savrasov, Landscape with boat, 1860. Oil on Canvas. Private Collection. ©wikiart

J.M.W. Turner, Fishermen at Sea, 1796. Oil on Canvas. 91.4 cm x 122.2 cm. Tate Britain, London. © Tate, London 2020.

Ivan Nikitin, Peter I on his Deathbed, 1725. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg ©wikiart

Tintoretto, The Murder of Abel, 1551. Oil on Canvas. 149 cm x 196 cm. Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice © Web Gallery of Art

Josepth Wright, The Captive, from Sterne, 1774. Oil on Canvas, 102 cm x 127.5 cm. Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada. ©wikiart

J.M.W. Turner, The Lake Geneva seen from Montreux, 1810. Oil on Canvas, 105.4 cm x 165 cm. Private Collection. ©wikiart

George Hemming Mason, The Village Wedding, Watley Abbey. Oil on Canvas. 37 cm x 42 cm. Private Collection © Art Fund 2019

Anne-Louis Girodet, Chateaubriand Meditating the Ruins of Rome, 1808. Oil on Canvas. 130 cm x 96 cm. Musée d’Histoire de la Ville et du Pays Malouin, Saint-Malo, France. ©wikiart

Francisco Goya, Brigand Murdering a woman, 1798. Oil on Canvas. 105.4 cm x 80.7 cm. Private Collection. ©wikiart

Caspar David Friedrich, Monastery ruins in the snow, 1819. Private Collection. ©wikiart

Anthony Van Dyck, 1637, Equestrian Portrait of Charles I. Oil on Canva, 367 × 292.1 cm. Main Collection © The National Gallery

Ary Scheffer, 1824, La Mort de Gericault. Oil on Canvas. 38x46cm. Musée de la Vie romantique, France.

Vicente Palmorali, 1870. Gustavo Aldopho Becquer on his Death Bed. Oil on board. 43x29cm. Museo Nacional del Romanticismo, Spain.

Arno Nadel, 1878-1943. Portrait of a man in blue. Pastel and charcoal on paper. 73×95.7cm. LBI Art Collection, Center for Jewish History.

Alenza Y Nieto Leonardo, Satire on Romantic Suicide. Oil on Canvas. 36x28cm. Museo Romántico, Madrid.