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Record Number: ILN0004

Related Work: Guy Mannering

Illustration Title/Caption: Guy Mannering / Meg Merrilies Predicting the Fall of the House of Ellangowan

Keyword(s): Attendants & Servants - Bertram, Godfrey - Clothing & Dress - Gypsies & Vagrants - Horses - Law & Lawyers - Merrilies, Meg - Prophecy

Artist: William Allan

Engraver: Henry Cook

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 11 x 8

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: [Plate 3]

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.ALL

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Godfrey Bertram and groom on horseback, with turbaned Meg Merrilies above them on bank, issuing her curse, with sapling bough in raised right hand [Ch. 8].

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