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Record Number: POR0027

Related Work: Peveril of the Peak

Illustration Title/Caption: Fenella

Keyword(s): Christian, Fenella ('Zarah') - Portraits

Artist: Henry Howard

Engraver: Henry Cook

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 10.5 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 27]

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Portrait of Fenella Christian wearing a turban with a feather. Accompanying quoted text, with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'Her face was darker . . . rather a foreign attribute.'--Vol. XXIX, p. 29.' See Ch. 16; EEWN 14, 162.18-21. Imprint of Chapman & Hall dated 1 June 1833. Also appears in the Fisher edition of the Waverley Novels: see #FIS0086.

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