Record Number: DRY0126

Related Work: Pirate, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Sword-Dance

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Drama & Performance - Troil, Minna

Artist: William Heysham Overend

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 9.5 x 14.4

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. 158

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts performance of the traditional sword-dance, with the men bowing with the points of their swords on the ground, and with the figure of Minna Troil prominent in the middle [Ch. 15].

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