A derelict boat in Blackwater lake" — Headnote vignette by John McLenan for Wilkie Collins's "The Woman in White" in Harper's Weekly (11 February 1860) (original) (raw)

A derelict boat in Blackwater lake.

John McLenan

11 February 1860

10.2 cm high by 5.4 cm wide (4 by 2 ⅛ inches), framed, p. 85.

Tenth headnote vignette for Collins's The Woman in White: A Novel (1860).

As Marian begins her exploration of the grounds of the Blackwater Park estate the morning after her arrival, on 28 July 1850 she emerges from a close plantation of firs to discover the lake below her. Returning by her former path to the heath nearer the house, she encounters a wooden shed or boat-house. As she sits to catch her breath, she hears a sobbing breath underneath her. Under her rude seat she discovers a feeble black and white spaniel, who is the subject of this instalment’s chief illustration for incidents on 28 July.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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