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Record Number: BOR0189

Related Work: Redgauntlet

Illustration Title/Caption: At Fairladies

Keyword(s): Charles Edward Stuart, Prince ('Father Buonaventure') - Fairford, Alan - Jacobitism

Artist: William Henry Boucher

Engraver: William Henry Boucher

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 13.9 x 9.2

Date: 1894

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 36, facing p. 182

Location of Copy: NLS, Lit.S.22

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the seated Prince Charles Edward (in the guise of Father Buonaventure) startled by the sudden appearance of his mistress (based in the story on Clementina Walkinshaw) through the tapestry covering a side-door, with Alan Fairford looking on [Ch. 16].

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