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Record Number: LIB0019

Related Work: Monastery, The

Illustration Title/Caption: James Stuart / ‘The commanding form . . . awe and reverence.’ [4 lines]

Keyword(s): Murray, Earl of - Portraits

Artist: No Artist

Engraver: George B. Shaw

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 12.5 x 10.1

Date: 1853

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 10 (frontispiece)

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Portrait of James Stuart, Earl of Murray, Regent of Scotland with quoted text from Ch. 35; EEWN 9, 322.15-18. A reengraving of a portrait published in Edmund Lodge's 'Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain' (1821), where it appears as no. 15 in vol. 2, somewhat larger than in the Library edition, engraved by H. Robinson. Caption includes facsimile signature. Caption indicates original portrait is at Holyrood. Also appears in the Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels: see #ABB0048.

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