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Record Number: DRY0233

Related Work: Count Robert of Paris

Illustration Title/Caption: Hereward and Sebastes of Mitylene

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Hereward of Hampton - Murder & Murderers - Sebastes of Mitylene

Artist: Gordon Frederick Browne

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 14.4 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, facing p. 22

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Hereward striking away with his axe the dagger with which Sebastes of Mitylene, falling backwards, had attempted to assassinate him. [Ch. 2].

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