logoIllustrating Scott

Record Number: SSR0009

Related Work: Waverley

Illustration Title/Caption: Stirling Castle / Waverley Vol. 2, p. 91

Keyword(s): Stirling Castle - Balmawhapple, Laird of (Mr Falconer) - Jacobitism - Horses - Castles & Fortresses - Parks

Artist: George Cattermole

Engraver: Edward Radclyffe

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 9.8 x 13.5

Date: 1835

Source Text: Leitch Ritchie, Scott and Scotland (London: Longman, 1835)

Position in Source Text: facing p. 228

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson E.RIT.3874

Image File Name: 0014643d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Balmawhapple, passing with his troop of Jacobite cavalry through the King's Park beneath Stirling Castle, and firing his pistol futilely at the Castle [Ch. 39]. Title/caption reference relates to Magnum Opus edition. Published later in 'Black's Picturesque Tour of Scotland' (Edinburgh, 1840): see image.

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