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Record Number: MAG0092

Related Work: Count Robert of Paris

Illustration Title/Caption: 'The assassin hovered . . . it was designed to protect.' [3 lines]

Keyword(s): Sebastes of Mitylene - Hereward of Hampton - Murder & Murderers

Artist: John West

Engraver: Joseph Goodyear

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 6.5 x 8

Date: 1833

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Magnum Opus edition], 48 vols (Edinburgh: Cadell & Company, 1829-33)

Position in Source Text: vol. 46 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1829-33/46

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Sebastes of Mitylene moving towards the sleeping figure of Hereward in an attempt to assassinate him. [Ch. 2; EEWN 23a, 21.25-27]

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