Record Number: DRY0050

Related Work: Legend of Montrose, A

Illustration Title/Caption: Allan Attempts to Stab Menteith

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - McAulay, Allan - Menteith, Earl of - Murder & Murderers

Artist: William Lockhart Bogle

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 14 x 9.5

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. 354

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts Allan McAulay, dagger in hand and in motion, having just stabbed Menteith, who lies on the floor with hand clutching his neck; another figure, presumably a guard, raises an axe, while other figures look on in consternation, two descending a flight of stairs [Ch. 23].

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