Record Number: LIW0021

Related Work: Black Dwarf, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Manor Glen

Keyword(s): Glens - Mountains & Hills - Rivers & Streams

Artist: Copley Fielding

Engraver: Edward Francis Finden

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8 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. 21

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

Image File Name: 0007387d.jpg

Notes: Depicts Manor Glen, in Peeblesshire, as the home of David Richie, reputed original of the Black Dwarf. (Drawn from a scene by James Skene) Accompanying quoted text (p. 21): 'Ye'll hee heard of Canny Elshie the Black Dwarf' [Ch. 1; EEWN 4a, 12.7]. Compare the drawing by Skene in #SKE0022. Legend states published April 1831.

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