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Record Number: LIW0022

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: Dunnottar Castle

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses - Cliffs - Seascapes

Artist: William Daniell

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. 22

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

Image File Name: 0014464d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Dunnottar Castle, on the east cost of Kincardineshire, overlooking the North Sea. Accompanying quoted text (p. 22): 'These captives . . . overhangs the German ocean' ['Introduction to Old Mortality', Magnum Opus edition, vol. 9, p. 223]. Legend states published May 1830.

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