Violent agitation and strong lighting effects combine here with the darkest, horror-struck emotions. Peculiar to the artist are the long, stretched-out bodies with marked thigh muscles. The subject comes from Edward Young’s drama The Revenge (1721). Füssli portrays the scene in which the female protagonist Leonore, and Zanga, the abducted son of a chieftain and now a slave, discover the dagger that her lover Don Alonzo used to kill Zanga’s father.