Record Number: LIW0016

Related Work: Rob Roy

Illustration Title/Caption: London from Highgate

Keyword(s): London - Forests & Woodlands - Dogs

Artist: George Barret, the younger

Engraver: Edward Francis Finden

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.5 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. 16

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts a view of London in the distance, with dome of St Paul's visible, from tree-lined Highgate as it would have looked at the time of the tale. Accompanying quoted text (p. 16): 'And when I looked . . . pleasures of cultured life' [Ch. 3; EEWN 5, 23.16-18]. Legend states published July 1830.

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