Record Number: CEN0009

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: Death of Old Mortality

Keyword(s): Old Mortality - Covenanters - Horses - Sick & Wounded Persons

Artist: John Lawson

Engraver: George Hoddle

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 11.5 x 8.3

Date: 1870

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Centenary Edition] (Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1870-71)

Position in Source Text: vol. 5 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: NLS, Hall.279.b-c

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts the dying Old Mortality, lying prostrate on the side of the road, with his white pony standing by his side. Accompanying quoted text: ‘About the beginning . . . his dying master.’ [Ch. 1; EEWN 4a, 12.25.28]

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