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Record Number: LIB0011

Related Work: Legend of Montrose, A

Illustration Title/Caption: Montrose

Keyword(s): Montrose, John Grahame, Earl of

Artist: Anthony van Dyck

Engraver: George B. Shaw

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 12.6 x 10

Date: 1852

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 6 (frontispiece)

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Portrait of James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, wearing body armour. A reengraving of a portrait published in Edmund Lodge's 'Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain' (1821), where it appears as no. 19 in vol. 6, with slightly different shading, engraved by H. Robinson. Also appears in the Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels (Edinburgh: Cadell, 1842-47): see #ABB0038.

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