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Record Number: ERR0002

Related Work: Rob Roy

Illustration Title/Caption: Diana Vernon and Frank Osbaldistone in the Library—The Glove Scene

Keyword(s): Libraries - Osbaldistone, Frank - Vernon, Diana

Artist: Robert Herdman

Engraver: Robert Charles Bell

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 18.5 x 24.2

Date: 1868

Source Text: Six Engravings in Illustration of Rob Roy for the Members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland ([Edinburgh: the Association], 1868)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 2]

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.RAPFAS.11

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Diana Vernon standing in the library at Osbaldistone Hall, and reacting to Frank, who leans toward her over a table holding one of two gloves there. Accompanying quoted text: ‘In removing one or two books . . . my affection called to account?’ [Ch. 17; EEWN 5, 139-40].

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