Record Number: EPI0001
Related Work: Pirate, The
Illustration Title/Caption: Sir Walter Scott in his Study (Castle Street, Edinburgh)
Keyword(s): Books - Dogs - Portraits - Scott, Sir Walter
Artist: John Watson Gordon
Engraver: Robert Charles Bell
Work Type: steel engraving
Size(cm): 24.5 x 18.8
Date: 1871
Source Text: Portrait of Sir Walter Scott and Five Engravings in Illustration of The Pirate for the Members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland ([Edinburgh: the Association], 1871)
Position in Source Text: frontispiece
Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.RAPFAS.3
Image File Name: 0030017d.jpg
Notes: Depicts Scott consulting a book seated at his desk, with a pen in his right hand, and a sleeping cat at one end of the desk, with his dog Maida beneath on the floor; a map, portrait of his mother, and suit of armour are among objects visible behind him. See Russell, Francis, 'Portraits of Sir Walter Scott' (London: White Brothers, 1987), Item 67, p. 43).
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