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Record Number: NTE0038

Related Work: Surgeon's Daughter, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Surgeon's Daughter

Keyword(s): Gray, Gideon - Law & Lawyers - Lawford, Mr - Moncada, Matthias de - Moncada, Zilia de (Mrs Witherington) - Prisons & Prisoners

Artist: Frank Stone

Engraver: James Johnstone

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 6.5 x 8.5

Date: 1833

Source Text: Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley [18mo issue], 6 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833)

Position in Source Text: vol. 13 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: BL 12604.a.4

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Zilia de Moncada in her apartment, under the protection of Gideon Gray, being apprehended by an armed King's Messenger, with Gray and Mr Lawford intervening [Ch. 15]. Matches #MAG0095, but with different engraver. Vol. also contains title-page vignette illustration of a village lane with three old women, matching vol. 17 of 16mo issue, #NTD0050.

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