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Record Number: WAG0013

Related Work: Talisman, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Queen Berengaria

Keyword(s): Berengaria of Navarre - Portraits - Richard Coeur de Lion ('The Black Knight') - Sick & Wounded Persons

Artist: John Rogers Herbert

Engraver: H. Austin

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 14.4 x 11

Date: 1841

Source Text: The Waverley Gallery of Principal Female Characters in Sir Walter Scott's Romances (London: Tilt & Bogue, 1841)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 13]

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.12.WAVG.1841

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the Queen Berengaria kneeling beside a bed, holding the hand of Richard, who lies in it. Accompanying quoted text: 'Berengaria knew well . . . to his wife Dejanira.' [Ch. 17].

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