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Record Number: BOR0126

Related Work: Pirate, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Sword Dance

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Drama & Performance - Music - Troil, Brenda

Artist: William Lockhart Bogle

Engraver: Henry William Batley

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 13.8 x 9

Date: 1893

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Border Edition], ed. Andrew Lang, 48 vols (London: John C. Nimmo, 1892-94)

Position in Source Text: vol. 24, facing p. 234

Location of Copy: NLS, Lit.S.22

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts men and women performing the traditional sword-dance, with swords raised together, and with the figure of (apparently) Minna Troil prominent in front; a fiddler can also be seen behind [Ch. 15].

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