logoIllustrating Scott

Record Number: EPI0003

Related Work: Pirate, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Storm with Mordaunt rescuing Cleveland

Keyword(s): Bryce the Pedlar - Cleveland, Captain Clement - Cliffs - Mertoun, Mordaunt - Seascapes - Shipwrecks - Sick & Wounded Persons

Artist: Samuel Bough

Engraver: William Richardson

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 16.7 x 25.2

Date: 1871

Source Text: Portrait of Sir Walter Scott and Five Engravings in Illustration of The Pirate for the Members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland ([Edinburgh: the Association], 1871)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 2]

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.RAPFAS.3

Image File Name: 0030045d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Mordaunt Mertoun attending to the shipwrecked Clement Cleveland on the shore, with the figure of Bryce the Pedlar appearing in the distance. Accompanying quoted text: ‘When the vessel split . . . eagerly, but in vain’ [Ch.7; EEWN 12; 69-70]. Matches #BOR0125, but with different engraver.

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