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Record Number: LIB0034

Related Work: Saint Ronan's Well

Illustration Title/Caption: ‘”No nearer – no nearer” . . . entreaties that he would begone.’ [5 lines]

Keyword(s): Etherington, Earl of - Mowbray, Clara

Artist: Abraham Solomon

Engraver: F. F. Walker

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 10.8 x 8.6

Date: 1853

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 17 (title-page vignette)

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

Image File Name: 0014615d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Clara Mowbray in the breakfast-room of Shaws Castle, rejecting the approaches of the Earl of Etherington, who wears a morning coat and has his hat in hand [Ch. 24; EEWN 16, 224.14-17]. See image (from 1877 reprint).

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