Record Number: CEN0001

Related Work: Waverley

Illustration Title/Caption: yours very truly / Walter Scott / Born 1771, Died 1832

Keyword(s): Dogs - Portraits - Scott, Sir Walter

Artist: John Watson Gordon

Engraver: John Horsburgh

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 10.3 x 8

Date: 1870

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Centenary Edition] (Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1870-71)

Position in Source Text: vol. 1 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: NLS, Hall.279.b-c

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts Scott seated with cane in hand with his dog Bran in the bottom right corner; a view of the Eildon Hills is to the left. Caption includes facsimile of ‘Yours very truly, Walter Scott’. Disliking a recent portrait by David Wilkie, Robert Cadell commissioned this portrait in March 1830, planning to have it engraved to accompany a volume of the Magnum Opus edition of the novels (see #MAG0065). (See Russell, Francis, 'Portraits of Sir Walter Scott' (London: White Brothers, 1987), Item 55, pp.40-41) (Another engraving of the same portrait, by Henry Robinson, appears as the frontispiece to vol. 1 of the Fisher edition of the Waverley Novels. See #FIS0001).

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