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Record Number: CAB0002

Related Work: Guy Mannering

Illustration Title/Caption: Meg Merrilies and Godfrey Bertram

Keyword(s): Attendants & Servants - Bertram, Godfrey - Clothing & Dress - Gypsies & Vagrants - Horses - Law & Lawyers - Merrilies, Meg - Prophecy

Artist: William Allan

Engraver: Robert Edward Branston

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 10.3 x 7.4

Date: 1841

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Cabinet Edition] (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1841-43)

Position in Source Text: vol. 2 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1171.i/2

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Godfrey Bertram and groom on horseback, with turbaned Meg Merrilies above them on bank, issuing her curse, with sapling bough in raised right hand [Ch. 8]. A reengraving of #ILN0004.

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