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Record Number: LIB0031

Related Work: Quentin Durward

Illustration Title/Caption: Louis XI / ‘His countenance was partly attractive . . . at once commanding and sinister.’ [6 lines]

Keyword(s): Louis XI, King of France ('Maitre Pierre') - Portraits

Artist: No Artist

Engraver: George B. Shaw

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 12.4 x 9.9

Date: 1853

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 16 (frontispiece)

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Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Portrait of Louis XI of France in profile, wearing a fur cap and cloak, with quoted text from Ch. 2 [EEWN 15, 33.17-21]. Caption includes facsimile signature. Also appears in the Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels: see #ABB0075.

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