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Record Number: FIS0057

Related Work: Monastery, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Knowest thou then this token? / Connais-tu donc ce signe?

Keyword(s): Eating & Drinking - Glendinning, Halbert - Shafton, Sir Piercie

Artist: George Cruikshank

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 8 x 13.4

Date: 1837

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 19, facing p. 24

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/19

Image File Name: 0014443d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Halbert Glendinning offering the silver bodkin received from the White Lady to Sir Piercie, who reacts in an extreme fashion [Ch. 19; EEWN 9, 181.17]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 49] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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