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Record Number: BOR0135

Related Work: Fortunes of Nigel, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Heriot and the King

Keyword(s): Heriot, George - James I and VI, King - Jewellery

Artist: Robert Walker Macbeth

Engraver: Robert Walker Macbeth

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 13.8 x 9.3

Date: 1893

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 26, facing p. 86

Location of Copy: NLS, Lit.S.22

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts George Heriot presenting for inspection a gold plate to the seated King James, with other objects strewn around the room [Ch. 5].

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