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Record Number: DRY0110

Related Work: Abbot, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Queen Mary's Departure from Scotland

Keyword(s): Attendants & Servants - Boats - Graeme, Roland - Mary Queen of Scots

Artist: John Williamson

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 14.7 x 9.5

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. 424

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Roland Graeme kneeling and kissing the hand of Mary Queen of Scots, as she stands with her attendant at the water’s edge about to embark from Scotland; the sail of a boat is faintly visible behind [Ch. 38].

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