[Bringing Lydia Hutchinson’s body to Ravensworth Hall] — illustration for G. W. M. Reynolds’s “The Mysteries of London” by G. Stiff

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Bringing Lydia Hutchinson’s body to Ravensworth Hall

G. Stiff

1846

Wood engraving

Source: The Project Gutenberg version of G. W. M. Reynolds’s The Mysteries of London

This plate, which like the others in the book, has no caption, and appears in Chapter 245, “The Excursion,” but illustrates a passage in the next chapter.

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Passage illustrated

The gardener retraced his way, in a sulky mood, and with much mumbling to himself, to the Hall, and presently returned with a couple of planks and two stout pieces of wood to serve as cross-beams to form the bier. The corpse was then carefully placed upon the planks, but not without great risk of its falling to pieces while being thus moved; and, the bier having been hoisted on the shoulders of the stranger, Dunstable's lacquey, the seedy coachman, and Colonel Cholmondeley's groom, the procession moved towards the Hall, the gardener and his wife at the head. [Chapter 246, “The Party at Ravensworth Hall”]

Bibliography

Reynolds, George W. M. The Mysteries of London. vol 2. London: George Vickers, 1846. Project Gutenberg EBook #51294. Produced by Richard Tonsing, Chuck Greif, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Web. 3 October 2016.

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