IDENTITY
Cromwell
Other Nonfiction
Work Summary
A dramatic or poetic work by Lamartine centred on the historical figure Oliver Cromwell. It belongs to nineteenth-century literary treatments of political history and powerful historical personalities.
Evidence Summary
The text formed part of his Amsterdam-period copied and devotional-historical reading.
Documented copied-source relation; no visual influence inferred.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Alphonse de Lamartine
Work
Cromwell
Years / Period
1877
Van Gogh Relation
Quoted / Copied
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
1877 — Related copied passages / Letter 130 note 16
Quoted / Copied · Copied / had passages to hand
The scholarly edition identifies Lamartine's Cromwell as the source of passages Van Gogh copied under the title 'Jeunesse de Cromwell'.
Response: The text formed part of his Amsterdam-period copied and devotional-historical reading.
Connection: Documented copied-source relation; no visual influence inferred.
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