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Record Number: DRY0073

Related Work: Bride of Lammermoor, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Lucy Ashton Playing the Lute

Keyword(s): Ashton, Lucy - Ashton, Sir William - Music

Artist: John Williamson

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 14.3 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. 8, facing p. 26

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Sir William Ashton entering through curtains, to view his daughter, Lucy, whose fingers are on the strings of a lute, and who looks in the other direction [Ch. 3].

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