Record Number: DRY0155

Related Work: Quentin Durward

Illustration Title/Caption: Quentin in Ambush During the Banquet

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Crevecoeur de Cordes, Count Philip - Durward, Quentin - Eating & Drinking - Louis XI, King of France ('Maitre Pierre')

Artist: Henry Marriott Paget

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 13.9 x 9.3

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. 120

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts Quentin Durward concealed behind a cupboard with his harquebus (gun) at the ready, as Louis entertains his guests at the dining table, where the Duke of Crevecoeur raises his glass [Ch. 10].

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