The appearance of the next witnesss . . . by Sydney P. Hall [?]. 1874. Wood-engraving. Illustration for Wilkie Collins’s The Law and the Lady: A Novel as serialized in The Graphic 10 (14 November 1874): 469. This illustration does not have Hall’s usual signature, and at least three other artists — F. W. Lawson, Mary Ellen Edwards, and the illustrator who signed him- or herself as “S” — provided illustrations for this novel. Click on image to enlarge it.
The complete text beneath the image: “The appearance of the next witness created a marked sensation in the Court. This was no less a person than the nurse who had attended Mrs Macallan in her last illness — by name, Christina Ormson.”
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Bibliography
Collins, Wilkie. The Law and the Lady: A Novel. The Graphic 10 (14 November 1874): 469. Hathi Trust online version of a copy in the New York Public Library. Web. 27 July 2021.
Last modified 28 July 2021