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Record Number: DRY0077

Related Work: Bride of Lammermoor, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Henry Ashton's Terror at Ravenswood

Keyword(s): Art & Paintings - Ashton, Henry - Ashton, Lucy - Ashton, Sir William - Ravenswood, Edgar

Artist: John Williamson

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 9.5 x 14.8

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. 170

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Henry Ashton having run in fear towards his father, Sir William, having noticed Ravenswood’s likeness to the picture of Sir Malise Ravenswood; Ravenswood himself meanwhile looks towards a painting on the wall, while Lucy Ashton stands in a curtain doorway in the background [Ch. 18].

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