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Record Number: LIW0012

Related Work: Guy Mannering

Illustration Title/Caption: Frith of Forth

Keyword(s): Seascapes - Boats - Mountains & Hills

Artist: Clarkson Stanfield

Engraver: Edward Francis Finden

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8 x 12

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. 12

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts a ship on choppy waters in the Firth of Forth, with Burntisland in the background. Accompanying quoted text (p. 12): 'But Mannering was chiefly delighted . . . between Edinburgh and the sea' [Ch. 37; EEWN 2, 213.35-37]. Legend states published in October 1831.

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