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Record Number: DRY0244

Related Work: Surgeon's Daughter, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Death of Zilia Witherington

Keyword(s): Middlemas, Richard ('Sadoc') - Moncada, Zilia de (Mrs Witherington) - Sick & Wounded Persons - Witherington, General

Artist: Paul Hardy

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 9.5 x 14.5

Date: 1894

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Dryburgh Edition], 25 vols (London & Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1892-94)

Position in Source Text: vol. 25, facing p. 86

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts General Witherington arms upraised in fury, as his wife lies dead in the room, and facing Richard Middlamas, who backs off slightly though with a still haughty expression [Ch. 22].

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