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Record Number: DRY0080

Related Work: Bride of Lammermoor, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Caleb's Last Entreaty

Keyword(s): Balderstone, Caleb - Combat & Duelling - Horses - Ravenswood, Edgar

Artist: John Williamson

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 14.5 x 9.5

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. 312

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Caleb Balderstone on his knees, imploring Ravenswood not to ride out to fulfil his engagement to duel with Colonel Ashton; Ravenswood’s horse waits nearby close to the entrance of Wolf’s Crag [Ch. 35].

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