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Record Number: LAD0019

Related Work: Pirate, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Pirate / Vol. 1, p. 235

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Birds - Cliffs - Hunting - Mertoun, Mordaunt - Prophecy - Troil, Ulla (Norna of the Fitful-Head)

Artist: Henry Corbould

Engraver: James Heath

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 10.5 x 7.5

Date: 1822

Source Text: The Lady's Magazine; or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, new series (London, 1820-29)

Position in Source Text: vol. 3, no. 2 (February 1822), facing p. 101

Location of Copy: NLS, AB.3.79.56

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Norna with staff in hand and her other arm raised, addressing Mordaunt Mertoun, who sits on a rock with fowling-piece in hand, against a backdrop of rocks and seabirds [Ch. 10]. Accompanying text (pp. 101-02) headed 'Meeting of Norna and Mordaunt; Illustrated by an Elegant Engraving'. Title/caption reference is to original edition.

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