"Count Fosco reappears." — headnote vignette illustration by John McLenan for Wilkie Collins's "The Woman in White," instalment 37 in Harper's Weekly (4 August 1860) (original) (raw)

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Count Fosco reappears.

John McLenan

4 August 1860

10 cm high by 5 cm wide (4 by 2 inches), vignetted, p. 485; p. 230 in the 1861 volume.

The headnote vignette for the thirty-seventh number of Collins's The Woman in White: A Novel in Harper's Weekly (4 August 1860).

The American illustrator effectively captures the foreign gentleman's self-deprecating and ingratiating gesture as he appears ion Marian's doorstep. Behind the jovial veneer lies a threat: he knows where they live, and is quite prepared to strike back at Walter Hartright if the drawing-master sets the law upon him for the death of Anne Catherick and the false imprisonment of Laura.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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