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Record Number: LIW0034

Related Work: Bride of Lammermoor, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Links of Eyemouth

Keyword(s): Boats - Cliffs - Seascapes

Artist: Copley Fielding

Engraver: Edward Francis Finden

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8 x 11.8

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. 34

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

Image File Name: 0007403d.jpg


Notes: Depicts a harbour with boats. (Drawn from a sketch by J. Skene) Accompanying quoted text (p. 34): 'The links by the seashore . . . swords our only weapons' [Ch. 35; EEWN 7a, 265.18-19]. Compare drawing by Skene in #SKE0042. Legend states published May 1831.

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