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Record Number: DRY0235

Related Work: Count Robert of Paris

Illustration Title/Caption: Count Robert and Brenhilda

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Clothing & Dress - Knights - Paris, Brenhilda, Countess of - 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, facing p. 178

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Count Robert and his wife Brenhilda in full dress, having prepared themselves to meet the Emperor; a long Norman shield is a prominent feature of the Count’s accoutrements [Ch. 14].

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