Record Number: LIW0025

Related Work: Heart of Mid-Lothian, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Tolbooth

Keyword(s): Prisons & Prisoners - Edinburgh - Churches & Churchyards

Artist: Alexander Nasmyth

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. 25

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

Image File Name: 0007456d.jpg

Notes: Depicts the old Edinburgh Tolbooth, with the side of St Giles Cathedral to the right, in the High Street. Accompanying quoted text (p. 25): 'He stood now . . . very middle of the High Street' [Ch. 6; EEWN 6, 48.8-10]. Legend states published 1 August 1830.

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