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Record Number: DRY0097

Related Work: Monastery, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Sir Piercie Shafton at Glendearg

Keyword(s): Christie of Clinthill - Clothing & Dress - Eating & Drinking - Glendinning, Elspeth - Shafton, Sir Piercie

Artist: John Williamson

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 9.3 x 14.4

Date: 1893

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 10, facing p. 122

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the extravagantly-attired Sir Piercie sitting at table in Glendearg face tilted towards the ceiling, with Christie of Clinthill seated opposite and Elspeth Glendinning attending to them; the younger members of the family group are positioned in the recess of a window [Ch. 14].

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