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Record Number: NTE0010

Related Work: Heart of Mid-Lothian, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Heart of Mid-Lothian / The Interview of Jeanie Deans with the Queen

Keyword(s): Caroline, Queen - Deans, Jeanie - Suffolk, Lady - Argyle, John Duke of - Clothing & Dress - Parks - Forests & Woodlands - Petitions

Artist: Charles Robert Leslie

Engraver: Charles Heath

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 9 x 6.5

Date: 1823

Source Text: Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley [18mo issue], 12 vols (Edinburgh: Constable & Co., 1823)

Position in Source Text: vol. 10 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1177.f.18

Image File Name: 0007446d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Jeanie Deans, with plaid over head and shoulders, petitioning Queen Caroline, in wooded parkland, with Lady Suffolk and the Duke of Argyle looking on [Ch. 38]. Imprint of Hurst, Robinson, & Co., London (the secondary publishers on title-page). Also appears in 'The Waverley Album' (London: Charles Heath, [1832]), facing p. 17 (see image). Vol. also includes title-page vignette of St Anthony's Chapel, as in vol. 14 of 1821 12mo issue, but with engraver given as Charles Heath.

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