She opened an invisible side-door in the wall . . . by Sydney P. Hall. 1870. Wood-engraving. Illustration for Wilkie Collins’s The Law and the Lady: A Novel as serialized in The Graphic 10 (12 December 1874): 565. Signed “Sydney Hall” lower left corner. Click on image to enlarge it.
The complete text beneath the image: “She opened an invisible side-door in the wall, masked by one of the pictures — disappeared through it, like a ghost — and left us together, alone in the hall. Mrs. Macallan approaches the oil lamp, and looked by its light at the sheet of paper the woman had given to her. I followed, and peeped over her shoulder.”
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Bibliography
Collins, Wilkie. The Law and the Lady: A Novel. The Graphic 10 (12 December 1874): 565. Hathi Trust online version of a copy in the New York Public Library. Web. 27 July 2021.
Last modified 28 July 2021