logoIllustrating Scott

Record Number: BOR0190

Related Work: Redgauntlet

Illustration Title/Caption: Nanty Ewart Disarmed

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Combat & Duelling - Ewart, Nanty - Inns & Taverns - Redgauntlet, Edward Hugh ('Herries of Birrenswork')

Artist: Thomas Scott

Engraver: Francis Sylvester Walker

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 13.9 x 9.3

Date: 1894

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 36, facing p. 280

Location of Copy: NLS, Lit.S.22

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Redgauntlet (‘Herries of Birrenswork’), sword in hand, standing over the prostrate body of Nanty Ewart, whose own sword lies on the ground; Crackenthorp’s inn and the Solway Firth are in the background [Ch. 21].

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