Record Number: DRY0218

Related Work: Fair Maid of Perth, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Bier-Ordeal

Keyword(s): Churches & Churchyards - Clergy - Knights - Murder & Murderers - Perth

Artist: Charles Martin Hardie

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 9.5 x 14.7

Date: 1894

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Dryburgh Edition], 25 vols (London & Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1892-94)

Position in Source Text: vol. 22, facing p. 272

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts the scene set for the ordeal of touching the dead body in the High Church of St John in Perth, with two knights standing at either side of the bier [Ch. 23].

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