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Record Number: DRY0072

Related Work: Bride of Lammermoor, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Caleb Recovering the Feather

Keyword(s): Balderstone, Caleb - Cliffs - Wolf's Crag

Artist: John Williamson

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 8.2 x 6

Date: 1893

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 8 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Caleb Balderstone about to pick up Ravenswood’s hat feather as it floats in the sea; the cliffs and fortress in the background are presumably meant to represent Wolf’s Crag [Ch. 35].

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