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Record Number: LIW0032

Related Work: Bride of Lammermoor, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Coldingham

Keyword(s): Cattle - Churches & Churchyards - Graves - Monasteries - Ruins

Artist: Samuel Prout

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. 32

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

Image File Name: 0007392d.jpg


Notes: Depicts the priory in Coldingham, with women, graves, and cattle in the yard. (Drawn from a sketch by James Skene) Accompanying quoted text (p. 32): 'Under the very arch . . . service of the church' [Ch. 2, see EEWN 7a, 20.14-16]. Compare the drawing by Skene in #SKE0041. Legend states published September 1831.

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