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Record Number: POR0025

Related Work: Quentin Durward

Illustration Title/Caption: Isabelle de Croye

Keyword(s): Croye, Isabelle, Countess de ('Jacqueline') - Portraits

Artist: Simon Jacques Rochard

Engraver: Henry Robinson

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 10 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 25]

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Portrait of Isabelle de Croye, wearing crown, shawl, and ermine cape. Accompanying quoted text, with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'He speedily made the discovery . . . resembled that of Melpomene.'--Vol. XXXI [sic].' See Ch. 4; EEWN 15, 50.1-6. Imprint of Chapman & Hall dated 15 September 1832. Also appears in the Fisher edition of the Waverley Novels: see #FIS0092.

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