logoIllustrating Scott

Record Number: LIB0010

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: ‘A gory figure . . . which thou hast shed’ [4 lines]

Keyword(s): Apparitions & Ghosts - Grahame, Colonel John, of Claverhouse - Mucklewrath, Habukkuk - Sick & Wounded Persons

Artist: George Harvey

Engraver: James Stephenson

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 10.8 x 9

Date: 1852

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Library Edition] (Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1852-53)

Position in Source Text: vol. 5 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: NLS, Hall.279.a & b

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Claverhouse, seated at a table, with a sword hanging from his waist, being confronted by the ghost-like figure of Mucklewrath, who stands with one finger pointing at Claverhouse and one pointing upwards toward heaven [Ch. 34; EEWN 4a, 268-69].

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