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Record Number: BOR0191

Related Work: Redgauntlet

Illustration Title/Caption: Peebles Catching Alan

Keyword(s): Fairford, Alan - Geddes, Joshua - Greenmantle (Redgauntlet, Lilias) - Law & Lawyers - Peebles, Peter

Artist: George Hay

Engraver: Frederick Huth

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 9.3 x 14.3

Date: 1894

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 36, facing p. 326

Location of Copy: NLS, Lit.S.22

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Alan Fairford seated alongside Greenmantle, who wears a riding dress, and interrupted by Peter Peebles, who holds Alan’s shoulder with one hand and points a finger with the other; the figure at the door is apparently meant to represent Joshua Geddes [Ch. 23]. Matches #ERE0006, but with different engraver. Exhibited Royal Scottish Academy, no. 205, 1876.

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