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Record Number: DRY0109

Related Work: Abbot, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Discovery of the Attempted Flight by the Lady of Lochleven

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Attendants & Servants - Douglas, George - Douglas, Lady Margaret - Mary Queen of Scots

Artist: John Williamson

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 9.4 x 14.5

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. 322

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the Lady of Lochleven pointing accusingly at Mary Queen of Scots, who is seated at the other end of a large fireplace, with (apparently) George Douglas also there standing defiantly with hand on the hilt of his sword [Ch. 30].

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