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Record Number: FIS0085

Related Work: Peveril of the Peak

Illustration Title/Caption: Holm-Peel Castle. Fenella & Julian Peveril / Chateau de Holm-Peel. Fenella et Julian Peveril

Keyword(s): Boats - Castles & Fortresses - Christian, Fenella ('Zarah') - Moonlight - Peveril, Julian

Artist: Francis William Topham

Engraver: Francis William Topham

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.2 x 13.3

Date: 1838

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 29 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/29

Image File Name: 0014506d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Julian Peveril departing at night from Holm-Peel Castle, with the figure of Fenella apparently visible on the rocks beneath the castle [Ch. 19]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 67] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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