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Aisle of St Magnus' Cathedral, engraved by Mary A. Williams after William Dickes (1844)

Frontispiece to : Sir Walter Scott, The Pirate (Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, [185-?]).

In The Pirate, Ulla, the self-styprophetess, convinces the Troil family that the only way to cure their daughter Minna is to visit St. Magnus' Cathedral in Kirkwall. This engraving was originally published in the Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels (1844).