Record Number: ILI0006

Related Work: Ivanhoe

Illustration Title/Caption: Page 21. / Ivanhoe. / Rowena rescued from the flames. / Vol. III.

Keyword(s): Cedric of Rotherwood - Gurth - Rowena, Lady of Hargottstandstede

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 5]

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

Image File Name: 0007501d.jpg

Notes: Depicts Rowena in her chamber clutching a crucifix, as smoke fills the room, with Cedric and Gurth entering through a door in the background to save her. [Ch. 31] Also appears as a separate print in the Corson Collection (P. 2983) (see image)

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