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Record Number: LIB0016

Related Work: Bride of Lammermoor, The

Illustration Title/Caption: “’And never shall this leave my bosom . . . acknowledge another love than yours.” [4 lines]

Keyword(s): Ashton, Lucy - Ravenswood, Edgar - Waterfalls

Artist: William Powell Frith

Engraver: Lumb Stocks

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 10.5 x 8.3

Date: 1852

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 8 (title-page vignette)

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Lucy Ashton and Edgar Ravenswood pledging their love by a small waterfall, as Lucy ties the ribbon necklace around her neck; a raven sits conspicuously on a barren tree behind them [Ch. 20; EEWN 7a, 158.39-43].

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