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Record Number: BOR0177

Related Work: Saint Ronan's Well

Illustration Title/Caption: At Hannah Irwin's Bedside

Keyword(s): Cottages - Etherington, Earl of - Handicraft - Irwin, Hannah - Penfeather, Lady Penelope - Sick & Wounded Persons

Artist: Amedee Forestier

Engraver: G. Rodriquez

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 9.4 x 14.7

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, facing p. 208

Location of Copy: NLS, Lit.S.22

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Lady Penfeather and Lord Etherington as visitors to the hut where Hannah Irwin lies dying in bed, with hands raised, while a crone-like figure (representing her assistant) sits at a spinning wheel [Ch. 32].

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