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Record Number: ERE0003

Related Work: Redgauntlet

Illustration Title/Caption: Redgauntlet and Darsie Latimer on their way to Shepherd’s Bush intercepted by Joshua Geddes

Keyword(s): Geddes, Joshua - Journeys & Travellers - Latimer, Darsie (Redgauntlet, Sir Arthur Darsie) - Redgauntlet, Edward Hugh ('Herries of Birrenswork') - Rivers & Streams

Artist: John Smart

Engraver: William Forrest

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 16.2 x 27.2

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 3]

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts (in the middle distance) Redgauntlet (‘Herries of Birrenswork’) on horseback, with Darsie Latimer on foot, meeting Joshua Geddes who is riding from the other direction; the group appear near the edge of a cliff, with a valley and river below. Accompanying quoted text: ‘My host threw himself . . . calls them, Quakers’ [Letter 6; EEWN 17.41-42].

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