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Record Number: KEP0006

Related Work: My Aunt Margaret's Mirror

Illustration Title/Caption: The Magic Mirror

Keyword(s): Alchemy & Magic - Apparitions & Ghosts - Bothwell, Lady - Combat & Duelling - Damiotti, Doctor Baptista - Falconer, Captain - Forester, Lady - Forester, Sir Philip

Artist: John Massey Wright

Engraver: Edward J. Portbury

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 11.8 x 8.4

Date: 1828

Source Text: The Keepsake for 1829 (London: Hurst, Chance, & Co., 1828)

Position in Source Text: facing p. 33

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson E.KEE.1

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Lady Bothwell and Lady Forester looking with horror into the 'magic' mirror of Doctor Damiotti, with the mirror revealing an image of Sir Philip Forester and Captain Falconer about to enter into a fatal duel [Ch. 2].

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