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Record Number: ERE0001

Related Work: Redgauntlet

Illustration Title/Caption: Sunset on the Solway Sands--Storm Rising--Horsemen Hunting Salmon

Keyword(s): Fishing - Horses - Seascapes

Artist: Samuel Bough

Engraver: William Forrest

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 17.5 x 25

Date: 1876

Source Text: Six Engravings in Illustration of Redgauntlet for the Members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland ([Edinburgh: the Association], 1876)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 1]

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.RAPFAS.9

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the Solway Firth near nightfall, with three horsemen on the sands holding spear. Accompanying quoted text: ‘I mentioned in my last … in the old tapestry’ [Letter 4; EEWN 17, 20.5-24]. Matches #BOR0182, but with different engraver.

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