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Record Number: BOR0097

Related Work: Monastery, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Halbert and The White Lady

Keyword(s): Apparitions & Ghosts - Avenel, White Lady of - Glendinning, Edward - Glendinning, Halbert

Artist: Gordon Frederick Browne

Engraver: Augustin Mongin

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 9.2 x 14.2

Date: 1893

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Border Edition], ed. Andrew Lang, 48 vols (London: John C. Nimmo, 1892-94)

Position in Source Text: vol. 19, facing p. 32

Location of Copy: NLS, Lit.S.22

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Halbert Glendinning, at the edge of a bed and with sword pointing downwards to the floor, facing the floating figure of the White Lady of Avenel, who points at him with the forefinger of one arm, while his brother Edward lies behind him in the bed [Ch. 20].

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