Record Number: CEN0049

Related Work: Surgeon's Daughter, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Hartley and Menie Gray

Keyword(s): Fountains & Wells - Gardens & Horticulture - Gray, Menie - Hartley, Adam

Artist: No Artist

Engraver: Brothers Dalziel

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 12.6 x 8.2

Date: 1871

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 25 (frontispiece)

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts Adam Hartley on one knee kissing the hand of Menie Gray, who looks the other way in a distraught posture, as Hartley bids her farewell after their interview at Madame Montreville’s residence in India. Accompanying quoted text: ‘He fell on one knee and pressed to his lips the hand which she held out to him.’ [Ch. 25; EEWN 20, 260.20-21].

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