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Record Number: LIB0015

Related Work: Bride of Lammermoor, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Bride of Lammermoor / ‘She was unable . . . concealed in her bosom’ [3 lines]

Keyword(s): Ashton, Lady - Ashton, Lucy - Ashton, Sir William - Contracts - Jewellery - Ravenswood, Edgar

Artist: William Powell Frith

Engraver: Lumb Stocks

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 12.2 x 9.6

Date: 1852

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Library Edition] (Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1852-53)

Position in Source Text: vol. 8 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: NLS, Hall.279.a & b

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Lady Ashton having cut the ribbon necklace off Lucy’s neck, and haughtily handing it to Ravenswood, as Lucy sits slumped in a chair looking distraught, and Sir William Ashton looks on from behind [Ch. 33; EEWN 7a, 252.32-35].

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