DEATHBED SCENE at the mil of Brideshead Revisited is shown here at sketched by Artist Alajalov for Town & Country magazine. In this climactic episode the dying Lord Marchmain rights for life in the elaborate and opulently furnished Chinese room of his ancestral estate, Brideshead. For days he rebuffs the efforts of a priest to administer final absolution. But an instant before he breathes his last, the proud old nobleman, who once embraced Catholicism because of his wife and later repudiated it and lived abroad with a mistress, makes the sign of the Cross and returns to his adopted faith.
Posted in LIFE magazine along with Evelyn Waugh’s response to the feedback he received.