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Record Number: CAB0005

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: Old Mortality and P. Pattieson

Keyword(s): Covenanters - Graves - Horses - Old Mortality - Pattieson, Peter or Patrick

Artist: William Allan

Engraver: Robert Edward Branston

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 9.8 x 7.9

Date: 1841

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 5 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1171.i/5

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts ‘Old Mortality’ restoring Covenanting gravestones with hammer and chisel, greeted by a stranger (Pattieson) holding a cane and uplifting his hat [Ch. 1]. A reengraving of #ILN0001.

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