This image depicts an episode from 'The Paradise and the Peri' in Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh. The Peri is on a quest to find the 'perfect gift' for Heaven--observing the death of a young couple from the plague, she captures the last sigh of the woman…
This image depicts the opening of 'Paradise and the Peri' from Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh: the Peri, a Persian angel, is disconsolate upon being barred entrance to Paradise. Found in Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge,…