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Record Number: ILM0001

Related Work: Monastery, The

Illustration Title/Caption: 'Landed---landed! . . . swimming with me.’ [4 lines in verse]

Keyword(s): Apparitions & Ghosts - Avenel, White Lady of - Books - Horses - Monks & Nuns - Moonlight - Philip, Father - Rivers & Streams

Artist: Richard Westall

Engraver: Charles Heath

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 9 x 7

Date: 1821

Source Text: The Monastery, 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., 1821)

Position in Source Text: title-page vignette

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.ALL

Image File Name: 0014452d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Father Philip and bolting mule fleeing from the floating figure of the White Lady, who holds a book in her hand. [Ch. 5; EEWN 9, 66-67] Also appears as a separate print in the Corson Collection (P. 2997) (see image).

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