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Record Number: FIS0128

Related Work: Count Robert of Paris

Illustration Title/Caption: 'A Varangian' at the Golden Gate of Constantinople / 'Un Varangien' a la Doree de Constantinople

Keyword(s): Hereward of Hampton

Artist: Alexander Chisholm

Engraver: Peter Lightfoot

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 12.4 x 8.4

Date: 1838

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 46 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/46

Image File Name: 0007404d.jpg


Notes: Depicts two women approaching Hereward as he lies apparently sleeping on a bench under the arch of Theodosius in Constantinople [Ch. 2]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 88] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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