"Walter and Laura Fairlie" — Fourth uncaptioned headnote vignette by John McLenan for Wilkie Collins's "The Woman in White" — Harper's Weekly (17 December 1859) (original) (raw)

Walter and Laura Fairlie

John McLenan

17 December 1859

10.4 cm high by 5.5 cm wide (4 ¼ by 2 ⅛ inches), vignetted.

Fourth uncaptioned headnote vignette for Collins's The Woman in White: A Novel (17 December 1859), 805.

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The illustration offers us a charming scene of Laura and Walter Hartright examining prints in a portfolio; there is no scene in the text that corresponds precisely to the portrait of the lovers in the headnote vignette.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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