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Record Number: FIS0028

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: Festival of the Popinjay / Fete du Papegai

Keyword(s): Attendants & Servants - Bellenden, Lady Margaret - Games - Horses

Artist: Richard Barrett Davis

Engraver: James Carter

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8 x 13

Date: 1836

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 9, facing p. 260

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

Image File Name: 0014475d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Lady Bellenden on a horse beside her carriage and entourage, watching the game of the popinjay being played in the distance [Ch. 2]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 23] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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