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MINTON 1877 TILE 'OLD MORTALITY MORTON & BURLEY'

Realised: $60 plus premium

Lot Details

205 X 205mm. This tile is one of a series illustrating the Waverly Novels by Sir Walter Scott. The novel tells the story of Henry Morton, who shelters John Balfour of Burley, one of the assassins of Archbishop James Sharp . As a consequence Morton joins Burley in an uprising of Covenanters (who wanted the re-establishment of presbyterianism in Scotland) which was eventually defeated at the Battle of Bothwell Bridge in 1679, by forces led by the Duke of Monmouth and John Graham of Claverhouse .

MINTON 1877 TILE 'OLD MORTALITY MORTON & BURLEY' Image 1++