Penny Dreadfuls, 1866 · page 101 of 276
Ivan the Terrible; or, Dark Deeds of Night — page 101: what you’re looking at
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# Ivan the Terrible: A Victorian Penny Dreadful Page This is an illustrated page from the middle of a serialized story. It features both a wood-engraved illustration at the top (depicting a crowd scene at a scaffold with multiple figures in period dress) and running prose text below divided into two columns. The visible text concerns Chapter XLIX of "Ivan the Terrible; or, Dark Deeds of Night." The narrative depicts Will Winter's execution scene: he appears on the scaffold, initially submits to his fate, but then dramatically proclaims his innocence to a sympathetic crowd, causing uproar. The sheriff and prison governor become alarmed at the crowd's angry reaction and contemplate military intervention. The page number is 13, and a notice at the bottom promises another engraved illustration in the next installment.
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