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Record Number: BOR0212

Related Work: Fair Maid of Perth, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Proudfute Unhorsed

Keyword(s): Combat & Duelling - Horses - Hunting - Johnstone, Dick - Proudfute, Oliver

Artist: Robert Walker Macbeth

Engraver: Robert Walker Macbeth

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 13.7 x 9.2

Date: 1894

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 41 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: NLS, Lit.S.22

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Oliver Proudfute on the ground having been unseated from his horse, having challenged Dick Johnstone (‘the Devil’s Dick of Hellgarth’), who remains on his horse, while hawking proceeds in the background [Ch. 8].

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