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Record Number: CAB0011

Related Work: Monastery, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Father Philip and the White Lady of Avenel

Keyword(s): Apparitions & Ghosts - Avenel, White Lady of - Horses - Monks & Nuns - Moonlight - Philip, Father

Artist: Alexander Fraser, the elder

Engraver: Thomas Williams

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 9.6 x 7.4

Date: 1841

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Cabinet Edition] (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1841-43)

Position in Source Text: vol. 10 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1171.i/10

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Father Philip on a horse attempting to ride through shallow water, with the floating figure of the White Lady above them [Ch. 5]. Imprint date of 1841; letterpress title-page dated 1842.

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