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Record Number: DRY0120

Related Work: Kenilworth

Illustration Title/Caption: Capture of Varney

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Combat & Duelling - Murder & Murderers - Raleigh, Sir Walter - Tressilian, Edmund - Varney, Sir Richard

Artist: Henry Marriott Paget

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 14.5 x 9.4

Date: 1893

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Dryburgh Edition], 25 vols (London & Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1892-94)

Position in Source Text: vol. 12, facing p. 452

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Raleigh and Tressilan, swords drawn, apprehending Sir Richard Varney, as his accomplice Anthony Foster escapes up a stairway in the background [Ch. 41].

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