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Record Number: DRY0157

Related Work: Quentin Durward

Illustration Title/Caption: Quentin Rescuing the Countess Isasbelle

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Croye, Isabelle, Countess de ('Jacqueline') - Durward, Quentin - Pavillon, Syndic Hermann - Towns & Cities

Artist: Henry Marriott Paget

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 14.5 x 9.5

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. 290

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Quentin Durward holding the Countess Isabelle in his arms as he walks through the streets of a town (Schonwaldt?) towards a flight of steps, with several somewhat ludicrously-armed companions behind, among them the portly Syndic Pavillon [Ch. 22].

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