logoIllustrating Scott

Record Number: FIS0074

Related Work: Pirate, The

Illustration Title/Caption: She demanded the wounded man of me. / Elle me demanda le blesse

Keyword(s): Boats - Caves - Cleveland, Captain Clement - Dwarfs - Mertoun, Mordaunt - Sick & Wounded Persons - Strumpfer, Nick ('Pacolet') - Troil, Ulla (Norna of the Fitful-Head)

Artist: Henry Melville

Engraver: Peter Lightfoot

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.1 x 13.3

Date: 1838

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 25 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/25

Image File Name: 0014511d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Ulla Troil with stick in one hand pointing to Cleveland, who kneels over the wounded Mertoun in the mouth of a sea-cove, with the figure of Nick Strumpfer darkly visible behind Ulla [Ch. 31; EEWN 12, 297.8]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 62] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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