Record Number: BOR0239

Related Work: Count Robert of Paris

Illustration Title/Caption: Ursel on the Terrace

Keyword(s): Douban - Medicine & Potions - Prisons & Prisoners - Ursel

Artist: William Hatherell

Engraver: Charles Louis Krate

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 13.8 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. 46, facing p. 134

Location of Copy: NLS, Lit.S.22

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts the released (and supposedly blind) Ursel on a terrace cowering from the sunlight, and attended by a robed figure presumably meant to represent the physician Douban (though Alexius Comnenus himself is another possibility) [Ch. 29].

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