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Record Number: DRY0214

Related Work: Fair Maid of Perth, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Kiss on St Valentine's Morn

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Courtship - Glover, Catharine - Glover, Simon - Gow (or Smith), Henry - Utensils

Artist: Charles Martin Hardie

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 14.7 x 9.5

Date: 1894

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Dryburgh Edition], 25 vols (London & Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1892-94)

Position in Source Text: vol. 22, facing p. 48

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Catharine Glover leaning over and about to kiss Henry Gow, asleep in a chair with his sword rested on one leg, with her father Simon watching from a doorway; a fire and poker feature in the near foreground [Ch. 5].

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