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Record Number: BOR0175

Related Work: Saint Ronan's Well

Illustration Title/Caption: Shaws Castle

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses - Rivers & Streams

Artist: George Reid

Engraver: Henry Macbeth-Raeburn

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 13.8 x 9.7

Date: 1894

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 34 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: NLS, Lit.S.22

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts (fictional) Shaws Castle, and gateway with decorative bears, the latter especially resembling Traquair House in Peeblesshire, with a river flowing in front [Ch. 20]. Matches #ESR0003, where connection with Traquair is made explicit, but with different engraver.

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