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Title-page for the 'Magnum Opus' edition of The Talisman, engraved by Samuel Sangster after a design by Sir John Watson Gordon (1832)

The vignette illustrates the line 'Christian and Saracen [next] sat down together on the turf, and
produced each the small allowance of store which they carried for
their own refreshment' (The Talisman, ch. 2). It portrays the Scottish crusader Sir Kenneth, or the Knight of the Leopard, and Saladin, the disguised leader of the Saracen forces.