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Record Number: ILI0004

Related Work: Ivanhoe

Illustration Title/Caption: Page 173 / Ivanhoe. / Fortitude of Rebecca. / Vol. II.

Keyword(s): Bois-Guilbert, Brian de - Castles & Fortresses - Rebecca - Torquilstone, Castle of

Artist: Richard Westall

Engraver: Charles Heath

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 12 x 8

Date: 1820

Source Text: Ivanhoe, A Romance by the Author of Waverley, Illustrated with Engravings by Charles Heath from Drawings by Richard Westall, Esq., R.A. (London: Hurst, Robinson, & Co., 1820)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 3]

Location of Copy: NYPL, NCC (Scott) (Westall R. Illustrations of Ivanhoe)

Image File Name: 0007500d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Rebecca fleeing the advances of Brian de Bois-Guilbert, whose hands are depicted just entering the scene, on the ramparts of Torquilstone Castle. [Ch. 24] Also appears as a separate plate in the Corson Collection (P. 2993) (see image).

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