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Record Number: DRY0092

Related Work: Monastery, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Abbot Boniface in Reverie

Keyword(s): Boniface, Abbot - Eating & Drinking - Monks & Nuns - Religion

Artist: John Williamson

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 7.5 x 5.5

Date: 1893

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 10 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Abbot Boniface seated after his evening meal in the palace of the Monastery of Saint Mary’s; the remains of a capon and glass of wine are on the table beside him [Ch. 6]. Title/caption from List of Illustrations.

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