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Record Number: DRY0248

Related Work: Castle Dangerous

Illustration Title/Caption: The Mysterious Knight (Sir James Douglas)

Keyword(s): Douglas, Sir James - Horses - Knights - Towns & Cities

Artist: Walter Paget

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 14.7 x 9.4

Date: 1894

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 25, facing p. 256

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Sir James Douglas mounted in full armour and holding lance in the town of Douglas, with Sir Aymer de Valence and his party visible at the far end of the street [Ch. 9].

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