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Record Number: DRY0121

Related Work: Pirate, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Minna Taking the Pistol

Keyword(s): Boats - Bunce, Jack - Pirates & Robbers - Troil, Brenda - Troil, Minna

Artist: William Heysham Overend

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 14.4 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. 13 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Bunce on the quarter-deck of his ship handing a pistol to Minna Troil, whose sister Brenda stands behind as they are about to leave [Ch. 36].

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