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Record Number: DRY0053

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: Shooting at the Popinjay

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Evandale, Lord - Games - Morton, Henry

Artist: Frank Dadd

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 9.5 x 14

Date: 1893

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 6, facing p. 20

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts (presumably) figure of Henry Morton, standing with rifle raised to firing position at the popinjay contest, as Evandale watches by his side, and a body of onlookers behind them watch on [Ch. 3].

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