Record Number: POR0015

Related Work: Monastery, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Mysie Happer

Keyword(s): Happer, Mysie - Portraits

Artist: Edward Prentis

Engraver: George Henry Adcock

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 9.5 x 8

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 15]

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

Image File Name: 0014440d.jpg

Notes: Portrait of Mysie Happer with dark hair in ringlets looking over her shoulder. Accompanying quoted text, with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'The countenance itself . . . seducing dimple in it.'--Vol. XVIII, p. 180.' See Ch. 13; EEWN 9, 125.17-20. Imprint of Chapman & Hall dated July 1832. Also appears as a separate print in the Corson Collection (P3012): see image.

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