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Record Number: ERE0002

Related Work: Redgauntlet

Illustration Title/Caption: The Supper Party at Redgauntlet’s Cottage

Keyword(s): Dogs - Eating & Drinking - Greenmantle (Redgauntlet, Lilias) - Latimer, Darsie (Redgauntlet, Sir Arthur Darsie) - Moffat, Mabel - Nixon, Cristal - Redgauntlet, Edward Hugh ('Herries of Birrenswork')

Artist: Robert Herdman

Engraver: Thomas Brown

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 17.5 x 25.5

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 2]

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Redgauntlet (‘Herries of Birrenswork’) at supper alongside Darsie Latimer, with Cristal Nixon and Mabel Moffat also at the table, and ‘Greenmantle’ (Lilias Redgauntlet) entering through a door. Accompanying quoted text: ‘He himself (Redgauntlet) assumed . . . if he had called?’ [Letter 4; EEWN 17, 28].

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