Lay of the Last Minstrel, engraved
by Charles Heath after Richard Westall (1809)
From: The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Illustrated
with Engravings from the Designs of Richd. Westall. London:
John Sharpe, 1809 (facing p. 90)
The plate depicts the Lady of Branksome Hall
discovering the wounded Deloraine (Lay
of the Last Minstrel, canto
III, stanza 22). It illustrates lines 7-8:
'She thought some spirit of the sky
Had done the bold moss-trooper wrong.'
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