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Record Number: LIB0032

Related Work: Quentin Durward

Illustration Title/Caption: ‘The publicity of the scene . . . retire into a cloister.’ [5 lines]

Keyword(s): Burgundy, Duke of - Croye, Isabelle, Countess de ('Jacqueline') - Petitions

Artist: Alfred Elmore

Engraver: James Stephenson

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 11.2 x 8.8

Date: 1853

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 16 (title-page vignette)

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the Countess Isabelle kneeling before the Duke of Burgundy on his throne; the other male and female figures also portrayed are perhaps meant to represent the Count and Countess of Crevecoeur [Ch. 32; EEWN 15, 352.28-31].

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