Record Number: ILN0001

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: Old Mortality / 'He considered himself . . . of their forefathers.’

Keyword(s): Covenanters - Graves - Horses - Old Mortality - Pattieson, Peter or Patrick

Artist: William Allan

Engraver: William Home Lizars

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 9.5 x 8.5

Date: 1820

Source Text: Illustrations of the Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley from Designs by William Allan (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., 1820)

Position in Source Text: title-page vignette

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.ALL

Image File Name: 0014465d.jpg

Notes: Depicts 'Old Mortality' restoring Covenanting gravestones with hammer and chisel, greeted by a stranger (Pattieson) holding a cane and uplifting his hat. [Ch. 1; EEWN 4b, 10.6-8]

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