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Record Number: POR0006

Related Work: Rob Roy

Illustration Title/Caption: Diana Vernon

Keyword(s): Portraits - Vernon, Diana

Artist: William Boxall

Engraver: Henry Thomas Ryall

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 11 x 9

Date: 1834

Source Text: Portraits of the Principal Female Characters in the Waverley Novels; To Which Are Added Landscape Illustrations of The Highland Widow, Anne of Geierstein, Fair Maid of Perth, Castle Dangerous (London: Charles Tilt, 1834)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 6]

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.12.PORP.1834/1

Image File Name: 0014599d.jpg


Notes: Portrait of Diana Vernon touching her chin with her finger, wearing a jacket and a crucifix necklace. Accompanying quoted text, with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'Her finger immediately touched her dimpled chin, with an arch look of prohibition.'--Vol. VII, p. 148.' See Ch. 10; EEWN 5, 82.16. Imprint of Chapman & Hall dated 1 October 1832.

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