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Record Number: BOR0142

Related Work: Fortunes of Nigel, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Death of Dalgarno

Keyword(s): Christie, Dame Nelly - Christie, John - Dalgarno, Lord - Forests & Woodlands - Murder & Murderers

Artist: Robert Walker Macbeth

Engraver: Robert Walker Macbeth

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 9 x 14.3

Date: 1893

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 27, facing p. 320

Location of Copy: NLS, Lit.S.22

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the body of Lord Dalgarno on he ground in open woodland, half-covered by a blanket, with Nelly Christie kneeling in a distraught state by it, and her aggrieved husband John standing above her [Ch. 36].

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