logoIllustrating Scott

Record Number: WAG0025

Related Work: Ivanhoe

Illustration Title/Caption: Rebecca

Keyword(s): Portraits - Rebecca

Artist: William Drummond

Engraver: Joseph Brown

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 14.2 x 10.3

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 25]

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

Image File Name: 0030090d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Rebecca at a balcony in elaborate feathered hat and cape. Accompanying quoted text: 'The figure of Rebecca might . . . those who affected to deride them.' [Ch. 7]. Legend states published 1 November 1840. Also appears in a later German translation, though with artist listed as Alfred Henry Payne: see image.

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