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Record Number: DRY0231

Related Work: Count Robert of Paris

Illustration Title/Caption: Combat Between Count Robert and Hereward

Keyword(s): Alexius Comnenus - Arms & Armaments - Combat & Duelling - Hereward of Hampton - Paris, Count Robert of

Artist: Gordon Frederick Browne

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. 24 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Count Robert and Hereward in the lists axes raised ready to strike at each other, with other knights watching and Emperor Alexius mounted on his throne adjudicating [Ch. 34].

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