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Record Number: CEN0045

Related Work: Anne of Geierstein

Illustration Title/Caption: Anne of Geierstein in the Dungeon

Keyword(s): Geierstein, Anne of - Monks & Nuns - Philipson, Arthur (Vere, Arthur de) - Prisons & Prisoners

Artist: No Artist

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 12.5 x 8.2

Date: 1871

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 23 (frontispiece)

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Anne of Geierstein holding aloft a burning torch, along with the Black Priest of St Paul's (actually Count Albert of Geierstein) and the liberated Arthur Philipson. Accompanying quoted text: ‘"Speak, young man . . . to my instruction."’ [Ch. 15; EEWN 23, 156.27-28].

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