Record Number: FIS0065

Related Work: Kenilworth

Illustration Title/Caption: Queen Elizabeth at Greenwich Hospital / La Reine Elisabeth a l'hopital de Greenwich

Keyword(s): Boats - Elizabeth, Queen of England - Flags - Music

Artist: Henry Melville

Engraver: Henry Chawnes Shenton, the elder

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.1 x 13.5

Date: 1837

Source Text: Waverley Novels, 48 vols (London: Fisher, Son & Co., 1836-39)

Position in Source Text: vol. 22 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/22

Image File Name: 0007560d.jpg

Notes: Depicts the arrival of Queen Elizabeth by barge at the Palace of Greenwich, to a fanfare of trumpets, and with a copious attendance. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 56] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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