Record Number: EGM0004
Related Work: Guy Mannering
Illustration Title/Caption: Henry Bertram in the Kaim of Derncleugh
Keyword(s): Bertram, Henry ('Vanbeest Brown') - Children - Gypsies & Vagrants - Merrilies, Meg - Pirates & Robbers
Artist: William MacTaggart
Engraver: John Le Conte
Work Type: steel engraving
Size(cm): 17.5 x 25
Date: 1866
Source Text: Six Engravings in Illustration of Guy Mannering for the Members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland ([Edinburgh: the Association], 1866)
Position in Source Text: [Plate 4]
Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.RAPFAS.7
Image File Name: No image available for this record.
Notes: Depicts Brown hidden in straw, his face and hands only visible, while Meg supposedly sleeps, and a boy and robber-pirates examine his portmanteau of clothes. Accompanying quoted text: ‘The boy stepped to the door . . . they had acquired it’ [Ch. 28; see EEWN 2, 150.6-15].
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