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Record Number: LAL0004

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: Battle on Bothwell Bridge / (Old Mortality)

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Battles - Bridges - Horses

Artist: Eugene Louis Lami

Engraver: Gerard Rene Le Villain

Work Type: lithograph

Size(cm): 13.5 x 20.5

Date: 1829

Source Text: The Lithographic Album of Sir Walter Scott’s Readers, or 12 Sketches by the Following Distinguished Artists R. P. Bonington, P. Delaroche, et E. Lami (London: Colnaghi Son et Co., 1829)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 7]

Location of Copy: NAL, 67.D.35

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the Battle of Bothwell Bridge, with combat occurring at one end of the bridge, with a cloud of smoke from an explosion obscuring the scene at the very centre [Ch. 32]. Legend dated 1 December 1828.

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