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Record Number: DRY0240

Related Work: Count Robert of Paris

Illustration Title/Caption: The Emperor Visits Ursel

Keyword(s): Alexius Comnenus - Anna Comnena, Princess - Prisons & Prisoners - Ursel

Artist: Gordon Frederick Browne

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. 24, facing p. 306

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Ursel lying in straw on the floor, with arm uplifted at the sound of the entry of Alexius Comnenus (torch in hand) and his daughter Anna Comnena into his cell [Ch. 27].

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