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Record Number: DRY0079

Related Work: Bride of Lammermoor, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Ravenswood Interrupts the Betrothal

Keyword(s): Ashton, Lady - Ashton, Lucy - Contracts - Marriages - Ravenswood, Edgar

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. 296

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Edgar Ravenswood confronting Lucy Ashton, with a letter in his hand, at the signing of her marriage contract, while Lady Ashton attempts to intervene, and others respond in agitated fashion [Ch. 33].

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