"Count Fosco predicts a change" — Eighteenth uncaptioned headnote vignette by John McLenan for Wilkie Collins's "The Woman in White" — Harper's Weekly (24 March 1860) (original) (raw)

Count Fosco predicts a change

John McLenan

24 March 1860

10.4 cm high by 5.3 cm wide (4 by 2 inches), vignetted.

Eighteenth uncaptioned headnote vignette for Collins's The Woman in White: A Novel (24 March 1860), 181; p. 121 in the 1861 volume.

The illustration prepares the American serial readers for Fosco's machinations with Sir Percival arriving at a successful outcome in terms of the husband's controlling his wife's estate, a devious plot involving The Woman in White.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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