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Record Number: MAG0020

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: 'Although I had never seen . . . title of Old Mortality' [4 lines]

Keyword(s): Old Mortality - Covenanters - Graves

Artist: David Wilkie

Engraver: Francis Engleheart

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8 x 7

Date: 1830

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Magnum Opus edition], 48 vols (Edinburgh: Cadell & Company, 1829-33)

Position in Source Text: vol. 10 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1829-33/10

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Old Mortality wearing large bonnet and holding stick, standing by a Covenanting gravestone [Ch. 1; EEWN 4b, 8-9].

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