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Record Number: DRY0239

Related Work: Count Robert of Paris

Illustration Title/Caption: Death of Agelastes

Keyword(s): Agelastes - Arms & Armaments - Paris, Brenhilda, Countess of - Sylvanus

Artist: Gordon Frederick Browne

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 14 x 9.2

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. 300

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Agelastes being throttled by Sylvanus, the orang-utan, with a table falling behind him, while Brenhilda still looks on fearfully with a dagger in her hand [Ch. 26].

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