Canon illustration for pastrydeity

[yakalskovich]

Hi Sasha, have a Rebecca from 1860.-

She's from my father's old copy of 'Ivanhoe', and unfortunately, the only illustration in it.



Context: I had talked to arkadyevna on Daily Entertainment recently about canon illustrations from around the time the canon was written, and how it is cool to have them, if one is a mun of 19th century canon. And I vaguely remembered a n illustrated 'Ivanhoe' somewhere. The book has been found, but the one and only illustration is a frontispice of Rebecca.-

Sorry!

And I have this in somewhat larger resolution, if that's any use to you.-

Comments

[arkadyevna.livejournal.com]

*squees!*

And I am totally butting in here, but this is lovely, though of course it leaves me wishing there were more illustrations. Thank you for sharing!

I did come across two other Rebecca-Brian pictures through my googling. Both are works by Eugene Delacroix, and both are versions of Rebecca's abduction by Brian (aided by his Saracen slaves). But I can't seem to find any decent hi-res images of them. Ah well!

[yakalskovich]

You're not butting in -- you're the one for whom I went in search of the book in the first place!

I'm just sorry there wasn't anything in it for period iconnage for the Templar.-

[arkadyevna.livejournal.com]

Responding belatedly here (I'm really good at that!) but -- I just read your comment to tekalynn about the illustrated Rebecca having three hands. I didn't notice before, but now I can't stop looking at it! I wonder if that's supposed to be a glove?

And now I have a mental image of a mutant three-handed Rebecca in Bar. :D

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

It's nice to see the artist read the book! The illustration matches the description point for point.

[yakalskovich]

She seems to have three hands, but that's perhaps not so important.-

[pastrydeity]

Rebecca > Rowena. (And Brian > Ivanhoe himself.) So it's not surprising that if there's only going to be one picture, it'd be her. That's really pretty though, and pretty much exactly the way she's described at the tournament. :)

Alas, all my copies of my various canons are paperback and not illustrated (though Neric's had illustrations originally).

[yakalskovich]

Yes, definitely! They are much more interesting. And Rebecca herself is an interesting female character that doesn't end up dead or married, an absolute rarity in 19th century novels.

[pastrydeity]

Alas, with the bit of epilogue Scott put on for Rebecca (going to Granada, which had already had a massacre by that point and had forbidden Jews to live there without converting) makes it less likely she'd get a happy ending besides just surviving the Templars.

[yakalskovich]

Perhaps that was just insufficient research? And he didn't mean to send her to such a bad place?

Of course, if your Milli!Rebecca gets persecuted, she can take refuge in the bar, and maybe emigrate to another world. And my Milli!Teja would always be willing to go with her and fight a few fanatical Christians to get her father to safety as well.-

[pastrydeity]

Yeah, research doesn't seem to be quite his strongest point. And there'll be some persecution back in her world, when I catch up on my string of OOMs, but I'm not sure yet how things'll work out for her.