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Record Number: DRY0043

Related Work: Black Dwarf, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Attack on the Tower of Westburnflat

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses - Earnscliff, Patrick - Elliot, Halbert - Horses - Willie of Westburnflat

Artist: Walter Paget

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 9.3 x 14.4

Date: 1893

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Dryburgh Edition], 25 vols (London & Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1892-94)

Position in Source Text: vol. 5, facing p. 62

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Earnscliff on horseback firing a pistol at the Tower of Westburnflat, out of which Willie of Westburnflat peers from a window, and with Hobbie Elliot advancing towards some brushwood in front of the tower with a torch [Ch. 9].

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