Henry Warden before the Sub-Prior, engraved
by C. Fox after Sir David Wilkie
From: Sir Walter Scott, Old Mortality (Edinburgh:
A. & C. Black, 1859), vol. I (frontispiece).
Originally published in vol. XIX of the Magnum
Opus edition of the Waverley Novels (Edinburgh: Cadell, 1830),
this illustration depicts a scene in chapter 31 of The Monastery where the Protestant preacher Henry Warden
is brought a prisoner before his old college-friend, the Sub-Prior
of the Monastery of Kennaquhair.
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