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Record Number: DRY0130

Related Work: Pirate, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Capture of Cleveland

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Bunce, Jack - Cleveland, Captain Clement - Derrick, Tom - Mertoun, Mordaunt - Pirates & Robbers - Troil, Brenda - 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. 430

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Mordaunt Mertoun felling Bunce with the butt of his carabine (rifle), as Cleveland saves Minna by shooting Derrick, prior to his own apprehension by Mertoun, and with the other pirates fleeing towards the sea; ancient stone works are visible in the background [Ch. 40].

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