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Record Number: LIB0029

Related Work: Peveril of the Peak

Illustration Title/Caption: Charles R / ‘He was past the middle age . . . dignified good-humour.’ [5 lines]

Keyword(s): Charles II, King ('Louis Kerneguy') - Portraits

Artist: Godfrey Kneller

Engraver: George B. Shaw

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 12.3 x 10.3

Date: 1853

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Library Edition] (Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1852-53)

Position in Source Text: vol. 15 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: NLS, Hall.279.a & b

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Portrait of King Charles II wearing large dark wig with quoted text from Ch. 30 [EEWN 14, 313.10-15]. Caption includes facsimile signature. Also appears in the Abbotsford edition of the Waverley Novels: see #ABB0073.

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