Record Number: PEO0004

Related Work: [none]

Illustration Title/Caption: Waverley Novels Vol III

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Elizabeth, Queen of England - Leicester, Earl of - Mary Queen of Scots - Portraits - Shipwrecks

Artist: No Artist

Engraver: Robert Edward Branston

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 19.8 x 11.8

Date: 1847

Source Text: Waverley Novels [People’s Edition] (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1842-47)

Position in Source Text: vol. 3 (engraved title-page)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson Add. A.7.a.1843-b/3

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Collage of images associated with the works in this volume (i.e. The Abbot, Kenilworth, The Pirate, The Fortunes of Nigel, and Peveril of the Peak), which includes a shipwreck scene at the top (probably from The Pirate), and the figures of (probably) Mary Queen of Scots to the left and Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Leicester on the right, with a castle scene (possibly representing Elizabeth’s entry into Kenilworth) in the centre. Imprint date of 1847, letterpress title-page dated 1845.

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