Record Number: DRY0070

Related Work: Heart of Mid-Lothian, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Lady Staunton's Rescue by the Whistler

Keyword(s): Butler, David - Cliffs - Deans, Effie - Waterfalls - Whistler, The

Artist: William Brassey Hole

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 14.1 x 9.3

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. 508

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts Effie Deans (now Lady Staunton), accompanied by young David Butler, being rescued from a precipitous rock by a waterfall through the intercession of The Whistler, who lowers a ladder towards them [Ch. 51].

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