logoIllustrating Scott

Record Number: WAG0016

Related Work: Antiquary, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Miss Wardour

Keyword(s): Portraits - Wardour, Isabella

Artist: John Rogers Herbert

Engraver: John Jewell Penstone

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 14.2 x 10.7

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 16]

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Isabella Wardour sitting on a dangling chair suspended by a rope. Accompanying quoted text: 'The fishers had brought . . . the brink of the precipice.' [Ch. 8].

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