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Record Number: LIB0033

Related Work: Saint Ronan's Well

Illustration Title/Caption: St Ronan’s Well / ‘They had accomplished their purpose . . . put the sylvan to flight.’ [5 lines]

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Forests & Woodlands - Hunting - Irwin, Hannah - Mowbray, Clara - Tyrrel, Frank

Artist: Abraham Solomon

Engraver: Edward Radclyffe

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 9.3 x 12.2

Date: 1853

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 17 (frontispiece)

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

Image File Name: 0014614d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Clara Mowbray as a young woman, with Hannah Irwin as her companion, being rescued from an unwanted admirer by Frank Tyrrel, in full hunting gear and with gun [Ch. 25; EEWN 16, 236-37]. See image (from 1877 reprint).

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