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Record Number: POR0019

Related Work: Abbot, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Mary Queen of Scotland

Keyword(s): Dogs - Mary Queen of Scots - Portraits

Artist: John William Wright

Engraver: James Thomson

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 10.6 x 8.4

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 19]

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Portrait of Mary Queen of Scots, holding a small dog, and wearing a hat, lace headdress, and ruffled collar. Drawn from a picture by Federico Zuccaro. Accompanying quoted text, with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'Her face, her form . . . that remarkable countenance.'--Vol. XXI, p. 6.' See Ch. 21; EEWN 10, 187.13-16. Imprint of Chapman & Hall dated August 1833.

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