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Record Number: DRY0089

Related Work: Ivanhoe

Illustration Title/Caption: Isaac Names the Prior's Ransom

Keyword(s): Aymer, Prior - Forests & Woodlands - Isaac of York - Locksley (Robin Hood) - Pirates & Robbers - Richard Coeur de Lion ('The Black Knight')

Artist: Gordon Frederick Browne

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 9.4 x 14.8

Date: 1893

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Dryburgh Edition], 25 vols (London & Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1892-94)

Position in Source Text: vol. 9, facing p. 316

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Isaac of York leaning forward as he suggests a suitable ransom for Prior Aymer to Locksley, who is seated under a tree flanked by the Black Knight to his immediate right and his own men to the left [Ch. 33].

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