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Record Number: BOR0152

Related Work: Peveril of the Peak

Illustration Title/Caption: Fenella Dancing Before the King

Keyword(s): Charles II, King ('Louis Kerneguy') - Christian, Fenella ('Zarah') - Dogs - Drama & Performance - Empson - Music - Parks - Peveril, Julian - Rivers & Streams

Artist: Arthur Hopkins

Engraver: William Henry Boucher

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 9 x 14.4

Date: 1893

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 29, facing p. 278

Location of Copy: NLS, Lit.S.22

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Fenella dancing before Charles II in parkland by the Thames, with a member of his retinue (Empson) playing a flageolet, and one of the King’s spaniels at his feet; Julian Peveril looks on from a short distance [Ch. 30].

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