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Record Number: BOR0122

Related Work: Kenilworth

Illustration Title/Caption: The Duel Interrupted

Keyword(s): Combat & Duelling - Forests & Woodlands - Leicester, Earl of - Sludge, Dickie ('Flibbertigibbet') - Tressilian, Edmund

Artist: Adolphe Lalauze

Engraver: Adolphe Lalauze

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 13.5 x 9

Date: 1893

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 23, facing p. 310

Location of Copy: NLS, Lit.S.22

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the Earl of Leicester in woodland near Kenilworth standing over the fallen figure of Tressilian, about to deliver the fatal blow, but interrupted by a boy from behind who grasps his sword arm [Ch. 39].

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