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Record Number: BOR0138

Related Work: Fortunes of Nigel, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Alsatia

Keyword(s): London - Pedlars - Towns & Cities

Artist: Robert Walker Macbeth

Engraver: Robert Walker Macbeth

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 13.8 x 9.65

Date: 1893

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Border Edition], ed. Andrew Lang, 48 vols (London: John C. Nimmo, 1892-94)

Position in Source Text: vol. 27 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: NLS, Lit.S.22

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts two ruffians, smoking pipes and wearing jerkins and trunk-breeches, lounging in the street in Alsatia (Whitefriars) in London; a female street-seller is seated opposite in the street [Ch. 17].

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