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Record Number: BOR0157

Related Work: Peveril of the Peak

Illustration Title/Caption: The Countess before the King

Keyword(s): Attendants & Servants - Charles II, King ('Louis Kerneguy') - Derby, Countess of - Petitions

Artist: Frank Dadd

Engraver: Frederick Huth

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 13.8 x 9.1

Date: 1893

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 30, facing p. 230

Location of Copy: NLS, Lit.S.22

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the Countess of Derby, dressed in a widow’s costume, appearing before Charles II at Court, who sits with just two attendant courtiers behind him [Ch. 45].

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