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Record Number: DRY0076

Related Work: Bride of Lammermoor, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Caleb's Visit to Gibbie Girder's

Keyword(s): Artisans - Balderstone, Caleb - Cottages - Lightbody, Jean - Lightbody, Marion - Utensils

Artist: John Williamson

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 9.5 x 14.5

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. 120

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Caleb Balderstone entering the cottage of the cooper, Gibbie Girder, whose wife, Jean Lightbody, preens herself before a mirror, while her mother sits, and two boys attend to cooking in the fireplace [Ch. 12].

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