Photograph of three characters re-enacting a scene from the novel, Ivanhoe. From left to right are: Honourable Ethel Cadogan (1853-1930) who plays Rebecca; Lord William Cecil (1854-1943) who plays Ivanhoe who lies on a bed of animal skins, wearing chainmail and Dr Alexander Profeit (1834-97) who plays a Page. Rebecca, on the left, kneels over Ivanhoe and the Page examines him from the right.

A Romantic novel set in Medieval England, Ivanhoe was written by Sir Walter Scott and published in 1819 to critical acclaim and concerns the life of Wilfred of Ivanhoe's return to England from the Third Crusades and his love for the Lady Rowena.