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Record Number: CEN0023

Related Work: Kenilworth

Illustration Title/Caption: The Countess Amy and Janet

Keyword(s): Foster, Janet - Jewellery - Robsart, Amy

Artist: F. A. F.

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 12.5 x 8.1

Date: 1871

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 12 (frontispiece)

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Amy Robsart admiring her new jewellery in the mirror as Janet Foster looks on. Accompanying quoted text: ‘”Thou sayest true . . . fair and polished surface.’ [Ch. 6; EEWN 11, 49.17-23].

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