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Record Number: LIW0026

Related Work: Heart of Mid-Lothian, The

Illustration Title/Caption: St. Anthony's Chapel

Keyword(s): Churches & Churchyards - Ruins - Moonlight

Artist: George Barret, the younger

Engraver: Edward Francis Finden

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 7.5 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. 26

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

Image File Name: 0007459d.jpg


Notes: Depicts St Anthony's Chapel in ruins, overlooking the Firth of Forth near Salisbury Crags, outside Edinburgh. Accompanying quoted text (p. 26): 'It was situated . . . dedicated to St Anthony the eremite' [Ch. 15; EEWN 6, 137.6-10]. Legend states published November 1830.

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