Elisa, seated in her favourite place in her husband's country park, sees a man approach her through the trees: it is her husband, the Marquis de Volange, whom she imagines to be a sprite called Valoë. Engraving by J. Collyer, 1788, after T. Stothard.

[London] : Published ... by W. Lowndes, January 1st 1788.

1 print : engraving, with etching, in oval ; platemark 22.9 x 26.1 cm

Stothard inv.t ; Collyer scu.t

A.C. Coxhead, Thomas Stothard, R.A.: an illustrated monograph, London : A.H. Bullen, 1906, p. 176 ("A set of three oval plates of medium size, published by Lown[d]es, illustrates Marmontel's "The sylph-lover". In the first, a girl on the end of a garden seat is surprised by the approach of a young man through the trees")

Wellcome Collection 2922667i