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Record Number: POR0026

Related Work: Peveril of the Peak

Illustration Title/Caption: Alice Bridgnorth

Keyword(s): Bridgenorth, Alice - Portraits

Artist: William Mulready

Engraver: Henry Thomas Ryall

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 10.5 x 7

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 26]

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Portrait of Alice Bridgenorth, wearing a high-necked gown and a bonnet. Accompanying quoted text, with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'The sad-coloured gown . . . less graceful than Alice Bridgenorth's.'--Vol. XXVIII, p. 230.' See Ch. 13; EEWN 14, 129.15-18. Imprint of Chapman & Hall dated July 1833. Also appears in the Fisher edition of the Waverley Novels: see #FIS0084.

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