Record Number: EOM0006

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: Morton awaiting his Death at the hands of the Cameronians in the Farm-house of Drumshinnel

Keyword(s): Covenanters - Morton, Henry - Prisons & Prisoners

Artist: William Fettes Douglas

Engraver: Robert Charles Bell

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 18 x 25

Date: 1869

Source Text: Six Engravings in Illustration of Old Mortality for the Members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland ([Edinburgh: the Association], 1869)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 6]

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.RAPFAS.8

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts Henry Morton held from behind and being disarmed, facing panel of Covenanters, who sit facing him at a table, two with hands raised. Accompanying quoted text: ‘Peace! said Macbriar . . . the moment of execution’ [Ch. 33; EEWN 4b, 263-64].

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