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Record Number: FIS0072

Related Work: Pirate, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Sumburgh-Head from Jarlshof. Shipwreck of Cleveland / Rocher de Sumburgh vu de Jarlshof. Naufrage de Cleveland

Keyword(s): Bryce the Pedlar - Cleveland, Captain Clement - Mertoun, Mordaunt - Pedlars - Seascapes - Shipwrecks - Sick & Wounded Persons - Troil, Ulla (Norna of the Fitful-Head)

Artist: Alexander Chisholm

Engraver: George Presbury

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.5 x 13.2

Date: 1837

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 24 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/24

Image File Name: 0014510d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Mordaunt Mertoun attending to the shipwrecked Clement Cleveland with Ulla Troil (Norna) rebuking Bryce the Pedlar for attempting to remove Cleveland's rings [Ch. 7]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 60] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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