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Record Number: DRY0125

Related Work: Pirate, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Magnus Troil Receiving his Guests

Keyword(s): Clothing & Dress - Horses - Mertoun, Mordaunt - Troil, Magnus - Yellowley, Barbara - Yellowley, Triptolemus

Artist: William Heysham Overend

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 9.5 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. 13, facing p. 122

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Magnus Troil at the front of his house formally welcoming Barbara and Triptolemus Yellowley, both in riding gear and mounted on extremely small Shetland ponies, with Mordaunt Mertoun also on horseback behind them [Ch. 12].

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