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Record Number: LIW0041

Related Work: Ivanhoe

Illustration Title/Caption: Jorvaulx Abbey

Keyword(s): Monasteries - Ruins - Cattle

Artist: Peter De Wint

Engraver: Edward Francis Finden

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 7.5 x 11.5

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. 2, facing p. 41

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.MAR.2

Image File Name: 0007514d.jpg


Notes: Depicts the remains of the Abbey at Jervaulx, near Middleham, with grazing cattle in the foreground. Accompanying quoted text (p. 41): 'Oh, it is such a rich . . . good fathers of Jorvaulx' [Ch. 33; EEWN 8, 285.5-6]. Legend states published January 1831.

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