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Record Number: EFM0006

Related Work: Fair Maid of Perth, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Campsie Linn

Keyword(s): Rivers & Streams - Waterfalls

Artist: James Docharty

Engraver: Thomas Brown

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 17.4 x 26

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 6]

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the Campsie Linn with rapids in the middle. Accompanying quoted text: ‘It is said, by one account, that the young Captain of Clan Quhele swam safe to shore, so far below the Linns of Campsie’ [Ch. 36; EEWN 21, 38-40].

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