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Record Number: DRY0058

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: Morton Condemned to Death by the Cameronians

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

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. 304

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Morton (seated and bound) awaiting his death sentence as a candle burns on the table, around which are seated his accusing Covenanters, one of whom stands and points a finger at Morton [Ch. 33].

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