The Vision of
Don Roderick,
engraved by Abraham Raimbach after Richard Westall (1812)
From: Sir Walter Scott, Glenfinlas, and Other
Ballads, etc.: Illustrated with Engravings from the Designs of
Richd. Westall. London: J. Sharpe, 1812 (facing p. 42).
The scene illustrates
canto II, stanza 21, lines 8-9 of Don Roderick:
"Rivers
ingulph him!" "Hush," in shuddering tone
The
Prelate said; "Rash Prince, yon vision'd form's thine own."'
It depicts
Don Roderick and the Bishop of Toledo beholding a future vision
of Don Roderick's defeat by the Moors .
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