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Record Number: ILK0001

Related Work: Kenilworth

Illustration Title/Caption: 'Upstarted of a sudden . . . cudgel in his hand.’

Keyword(s): Foster, Anthony - Goldthred, Laurence - Horses - Mansions & Palaces - Robsart, Amy

Artist: Charles Robert Leslie

Engraver: John Romney

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 9 x 7

Date: 1821

Source Text: Kenilworth a Romance by the Author of Waverley, Ivanhoe, &c. Illustrated with Engravings by Eminent Artists from Drawings by Charles Robert Leslie (London: Hurst, Robinson, & Co., 1821)

Position in Source Text: title-page vignette

Location of Copy: NLS, F.4.e.25

Image File Name: 0007552d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Anthony Foster with a cudgel threatening Laurence Goldthred, who is on horseback, and interrupting the intended conversation with Amy Robsart, who appears at a window of Cumnor Place [Ch. 2; EEWN 11, 15.36-38]. Also appears as separate print in the Corson Collection (P. 3040) (see image).

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