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Record Number: DRY0154

Related Work: Quentin Durward

Illustration Title/Caption: Quentin Condemned by Tristan L'Hermite

Keyword(s): Durward, Quentin - Gypsies & Vagrants - Horses - Petit-André - Punishment & Torture - Soldiers - Tristan L'Hermite - Trois-Eschelles

Artist: Henry Marriott Paget

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 14.5 x 9.4

Date: 1894

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 16, facing p. 62

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Quentin Durward with a rope round his neck being pulled along for execution by the order of Tristan L’Hermite, who is on horseback; the other figures include the gypsy previously rescued from hanging by Quentin [Ch. 6].

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