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Record Number: CEN0017

Related Work: Ivanhoe

Illustration Title/Caption: Richard in the Hermit’s Cell

Keyword(s): Dogs - Eating & Drinking - Richard Coeur de Lion ('The Black Knight') - Tuck, Friar

Artist: No Artist

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 12.6 x 8

Date: 1870

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Centenary Edition] (Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1870-71)

Position in Source Text: vol. 9 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: NLS, Hall.279.b-c

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Friar Tuck (as the Clerk of Copmanhurst) delivering a tray of food to Richard, who sits by a table, as two dogs look on. Accompanying quoted text: ‘Out of the recesses . . . of unusual dimensions.’ [Ch. 16; EEWN 8, 145.12-14].

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