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Record Number: LIB0027

Related Work: Fortunes of Nigel, The

Illustration Title/Caption: George Heriote / ‘He was a well made man . . . ruddy cheek, and grey hair.’ [5 lines]

Keyword(s): Heriot, George - Money - Portraits

Artist: No Artist

Engraver: George B. Shaw

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 12.3 x 10

Date: 1853

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 14 (frontispiece)

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Portrait of George Heriot (spelled Heriote in the facsimile signature that forms the title), with a ruff collar and what appears to be coin or gold pieces in his hand; with quoted text from Ch. 2 [EEWN 13, 29-30]. Also appears in the Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels: see #ABB0064.

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