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Record Number: SSR0001

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: Great Hall, Craignethan Castle / Tillietudlem / Old Mortality Vol. II, p. 64

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Attendants & Servants - Bellenden, Edith - Bellenden, Lady Margaret - Bellenden, Major Miles - Bothwell, Sergeant - Eating & Drinking - Grahame, Colonel John, of Claverhouse

Artist: George Cattermole

Engraver: Joseph Goodyear

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 9.5 x 13.5

Date: 1835

Source Text: Leitch Ritchie, Scott and Scotland (London: Longman, 1835)

Position in Source Text: frontispiece

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson E.RIT.3874

Image File Name: 0014467d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Lady Bellenden at table at Tillietullem, with Edith seated on the the other side of it listening anxiously to the discussion between Major Bellenden and Claverhouse near the window, with Bothwell leaning casually against a trunk on the other side of the room [Ch. 12]. Title/caption reference relates to Magnum Opus edition.

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