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Record Number: BOR0169

Related Work: Quentin Durward

Illustration Title/Caption: Quentin Delivering the Letter

Keyword(s): Chivalry - Croye, Isabelle, Countess de ('Jacqueline') - Durward, Quentin - Knights - Soldiers

Artist: Adolphe Lalauze

Engraver: Adolphe Lalauze

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 13.8 x 9

Date: 1894

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 32, facing p. 320

Location of Copy: NLS, Lit.S.22

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Quentin Durward, on horseback in armour, tilting his lance with a letter on its point up towards a turret outside the gateway at Peronne, where it is received by the Countess Isabelle [Ch. 36].

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