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Record Number: FIS0024

Related Work: Rob Roy

Illustration Title/Caption: Fray at Jeanie Mac Alpine's / Fray chez Jeannie Mac Alpine

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Combat & Duelling - Highlanders - Inns & Taverns - Jarvie, Nicol - Osbaldistone, Frank

Artist: George Cruikshank

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 8.2 x 12.8

Date: 1836

Source Text: Waverley Novels, 48 vols (London: Fisher, Son & Co., 1836-39)

Position in Source Text: vol. 8, facing p. 170

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/8

Image File Name: 0014601d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Bailie Nicol Jarvie, hot coulter of a plough in hand, and Frank Osbaldistone in fencing position, facing three Highlanders (one of whom lies on the floor) in the Highland inn [Ch. 28]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 19] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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