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Record Number: POR0021

Related Work: Kenilworth

Illustration Title/Caption: Janet Foster

Keyword(s): Foster, Janet - Jewellery - Portraits

Artist: Samuel John Stump

Engraver: Henry Hoppner Meyer

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 12.5 x 10.5

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 21]

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Portrait of Janet Foster, wearing dark dress and plain white bonnet, holding pearl necklaces. Accompanying quoted text, with reference to Magnum Opus edition: '"Surely, lady," said Janet . . . fairer neck jewels than these."'--Vol. XXII, p. 75.' See Ch. 5; EEWN 11, 38.19-21. Imprint of Chapman & Hall dated August 1833.

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