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Record Number: FIS0081

Related Work: Fortunes of Nigel, The

Illustration Title/Caption: King James, Prince Charles & Nigel / Le Roi Jacques, Le Prince Charles & Nigel

Keyword(s): Buckingham, Duke of (the First) - Charles, Prince of Wales (afterwards Charles I) - Dogs - Hunting - James I and VI, King - Olifaunt, Nigel (Lord Glenvarloch) - Petitions

Artist: Alexander Chisholm

Engraver: Robert Staines

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.4 x 13.6

Date: 1838

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 27 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/26

Image File Name: 0007416d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Nigel Olifaunt pleading with the mounted King James, having interrupted the hunt, with Prince Charles and the Duke of Buckingham standing between them [Ch. 27]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 65] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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