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Record Number: FIS0125

Related Work: Anne of Geierstein

Illustration Title/Caption: Strasburg Cathedral. Margaret of Anjou & Philipson / Cathedrale de Strasbourg. Marguerite d'Anjou & Philipson

Keyword(s): Churches & Churchyards - Margaret of Anjou - Philipson, Arthur (Vere, Arthur de) - Philipson, Seignor (Vere, John de)

Artist: John Franklin

Engraver: Robert Staines

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 12.6 x 8.4

Date: 1838

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 44 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/44

Image File Name: 0007374d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Arthur Philipson kneeling before Margaret of Anjou, as the widow of Henry VI, in the chapel of Saint George in Strasburg Cathedral [Ch. 24]. Also appears as frontispiece to vol. 45 in the same edition in many copies. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 87] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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