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Record Number: LIW0024

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: Bothwell Castle

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses - Rivers & Streams - Fishing

Artist: Ramsay Richard Reinagle

Engraver: Edward Francis Finden

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.4 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. 24

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

Image File Name: 0014460d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Bothwell Castle, overlooking the River Clyde, with anglers in the foreground. Accompanying quoted text (p. 24): It was on a delightful summer . . . ruins of Bothwell Castle' [Ch. 37; EEWN 4b, 288.3-6]. Legend states published September 1830.

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