Record Number: ILP0001

Related Work: Pirate, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Pirate / The Shipwreck of Cleveland

Keyword(s): Bryce the Pedlar - Cleveland, Captain Clement - Mertoun, Mordaunt - Pedlars - Seascapes - Shipwrecks - Sick & Wounded Persons - Troil, Ulla (Norna of the Fitful-Head)

Artist: John Massey Wright

Engraver: R. Baker

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 9.2 x 7

Date: 1825

Source Text: [Illustrations of the Pirate] (London: Hurst, Robinson, & Co., 1825)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 1]

Location of Copy: O, Dunston B(Scott) 166/1

Image File Name: 0014507d.jpg

Notes: Depicts Ulla Troil (Norna) attending to the shipwrecked Clement Cleveland, with Mordaunt Mertoun and Bryce the Pedlar looking on [Ch. 7]. Forms (attached) frontispiece to vol. 1 of Bodleian copy of first edition of ‘The Pirate’, 3 vols (1822), interpreted in Todd & Bowden 156Dk as containing the three plates from ‘Illustrations of The Pirate’ (1825). Plate carries imprint of Hurst, Robinson, & Co., London, 1825. The image is identical to that at #NTE0019, and was later printed in ‘The Waverley Album’ (London: Charles Heath, [1832]), facing p. 37 (see image).

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