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Record Number: DRY0054

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: Bothwell Thrown by Burley at Niel Blane’s

Keyword(s): Balfour, John, of Kinloch, or Burley - Bothwell, Sergeant - Combat & Duelling - Halliday, Tom - Inns & Taverns - 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. 32

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Burley standing over the prostrate figure of Bothwell on the floor in Niel Blane’s Inn, with Halliday about to draw his sword and Morton intervening to prevent bloodshed [Ch. 4].

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