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Record Number: NTD0004

Related Work: Guy Mannering

Illustration Title/Caption: [Dunure Castle]

Keyword(s): Boats - Castles & Fortresses - Ellangowan - Ruins - Seascapes

Artist: Alexander Nasmyth

Engraver: William Home Lizars

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 7 x 8

Date: 1821

Source Text: Novels and Tales of The Author of Waverley [12mo issue], 16 vols (Edinburgh: Constable & Co., 1821)

Position in Source Text: vol. 4 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1821/4

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Dunure Castle (ruins), as an equivalent of the old castle of Ellangowan, with craggy shore and sea with sailboat. Illustration caption as given in 'Sixteen Engravings from Real Scenes Supposed to be Described in the Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley' (Edinburgh: Constable & Co., 1821).

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