logoIllustrating Scott

Record Number: WAG0020

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: Edith Bellenden

Keyword(s): Bellenden, Edith - Morton, Henry - Portraits - Prisons & Prisoners

Artist: William Drummond

Engraver: T. W. Knight

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 13.8 x 10.6

Date: 1841

Source Text: The Waverley Gallery of Principal Female Characters in Sir Walter Scott's Romances (London: Tilt & Bogue, 1841)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 20]

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.12.WAVG.1841

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Edith Bellenden wearing a tartan shawl on the point of entering a room where Morton is imprisoned. Accompanying quoted text: 'The door, which slowly opened . . . poor lad Halliday punished for his civility."' [Ch. 10].

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