Marmion, engraved
by James Heath after Richard Westall (1809)
From: Sir Walter Scott, Marmion: Illustrated
with Engravings from the Designs of Richard Westall. London:
John
Sharpe, 1809
(facing p. 366)
The scene illustrates canto VI, stanza
XXXII, lines 28-29 of Marmion:
'Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!
Were the last words of Marmion.'
It depicts the dying Marmion at Flodden
Field, attended by Clara de Clare and a monk.
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