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Record Number: EFM0004

Related Work: Fair Maid of Perth, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Gateway, Falkland Palace

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses - Mansions & Palaces - Moonlight

Artist: George Reid

Engraver: John Saddler

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 24.5 x 18

Date: 1878

Source Text: Six Engravings in Illustration of The Fair Maid of Perth for the Members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland ([Edinburgh: the Association], 1878)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 4]

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.RAPFAS.17

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the towered gateway of Falkland Palace in near darkness, with a group of people assembling near the entrance. Accompanying quoted text: ‘At length the forest of Falkland . . . Duke of Albany’ [Ch. 30; EEWN 21, 325.36-38. Matches #BOR0219, which has the shortened title ‘Falkland Castle’, and different engraver.

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