Record Number: LIB0037

Related Work: Betrothed, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Bethrothed [sic] / Harlech Castle, Merionethshire / The ‘Garde Doloureuse’ of the Tale

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses - Cliffs - Rivers & Streams

Artist: Richard Kyrke Penson

Engraver: William Richardson

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.6 x 13.1

Date: 1853

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 19 (frontispiece)

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

Image File Name: 0007369d.jpg

Notes: Depicts Harlech Castle in Merionethshire, north Wales, as the prototype for the fictional castle 'Garde Doloureuse', with a stream in the foreground. Accompanying quoted text: 'The river, whose stream . . . defenders of the castle' [4 lines; Ch. 4]. Also appears in the Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels: see #ABB0088. Also appears as a print in the Corson Collection (P. 2383), with attributed date 1891 (see image).

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