Record Number: LIW0006

Related Work: Waverley

Illustration Title/Caption: White Horse Inn

Keyword(s): Cottages - Edinburgh - Inns & Taverns

Artist: George Cattermole

Engraver: Edward Francis Finden

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8 x 11.5

Date: 1832

Source Text: Landscape Illustrations of the Waverley Novels, with Descriptions of the Views, 2 vols (London: Charles Tilt, 1832)

Position in Source Text: vol. 1, facing p. 6

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.MAR.1

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts the White Horse Inn, in a close off the Canongate, with several small figures and clothing hung out to dry. (Drawn from a sketch by J. Skene). Accompanying quoted text (p. 6) 'He reached the door . . . called the Canon-gate' [Ch. 41; see EEWN 1, 210.6-7]. Compare the drawing by Skene in #SKE0004. Legend states published June 1831.

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