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Record Number: DRY0106

Related Work: Abbot, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Regent Murray Dismissing the Council

Keyword(s): Attendants & Servants - Holyrood Palace - Murray, Earl of

Artist: John Williamson

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 14.5 x 9.4

Date: 1893

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 11, facing p. 176

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the Earl of Murray at Holyrood Palace having dismissed his council after a meeting, with two of the privy-councillors lingering in the doorway [Ch. 18].

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