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Record Number: BOR0220

Related Work: Fair Maid of Perth, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Catherine and the Glee-Maiden

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses - Dogs - Glover, Catharine - Louise - Music

Artist: Robert Walker Macbeth

Engraver: Robert Walker Macbeth

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 14 x 9.3

Date: 1894

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 42, facing p. 256

Location of Copy: NLS, Lit.S.22

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Catharine Glover aided by the Glee Maiden Louise, who stands behind her, administering food with a stick through a chink in the wall of the Castle to the imprisoned Duke of Rothesay; a small dog looks on, and a viol rests against the wall [Ch. 32].

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