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Record Number: LAD0038

Related Work: Surgeon's Daughter, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Chronicles of the Canongate / Page 327 Chap. 14 Vol. 2

Keyword(s): Sadhu Sing - Graves - Arms & Armaments

Artist: Henry Courtney Selous

Engraver: Hamilton

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 9 x 6.5

Date: 1828

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 9 (29 February 1828), facing p. 103

Location of Copy: NLS, AB.3.79.56

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Sadhu Sing, as a hermit, crouched besides the tomb of his intended bride, with tiger skull and sabre at his feet [Ch. 27]. Accompanying text (pp. 103-04) headed 'The Unfortunate Bridegroom'. Title/caption reference is to original edition.

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