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Record Number: DRY0064

Related Work: Heart of Mid-Lothian, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Jeanie Deans and Robertson at Muschat’s Cairn

Keyword(s): Churches & Churchyards - Deans, Jeanie - Moonlight - Mountains & Hills - Ruins - Staunton, George (‘George Robertson’)

Artist: William Brassey Hole

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 14 x 9.5

Date: 1893

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Dryburgh Edition], 25 vols (London & Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1892-94)

Position in Source Text: vol. 7, facing p. 156

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Robertson pointing pistol at the imploring figure of Jeanie by Muschat’s Cairn, with the ruined St Anthony’s Chapel visible in moonlight on a hill behind them [Ch. 15].

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