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Alternative Title
Granë
Description
24. Granë. The horse of Brünhilde, in Wagner’s operas, Die Walkurë and Götterdämmerung, in the latter of which both she and Granë plunge into the flames of Siegfried’s funeral pyre.
Exhibit label:
GRANE, THE HORSE OF BRUNNHILDE.
A gift from Margaret Waller Freeman, an Editor of The Reviewer.
Physical Description
This figurine was unavailable at the time of digitization. An imaginative rendering was created by Minuet Curry. In it, a peach horse is looks to the left with its front right hoof raise and mouth open.
A tiny, delicate ceramic horse figurine standing with its left hind leg slightly bent and its tail flicking. A bay horse that lightens to white on the legs and muzzle. Hooves, tail, mane, and forelock are a contrasting dark brown.
Personal Name Subject
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958; Cabell, Margaret Freeman, 1893-1983
Topical Subject
Horses; Figurines; Mythology, Germanic; Valkyries (Norse mythology); Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Ring des Nibelungen.
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
figures (representations)
Type
Physical Object
Digital Format
image/png
Language
eng
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Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine Collection
Source
Horse 24, Granë, James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine collection, M 377, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
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