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Record Number: LIW0044

Related Work: Monastery, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Old Bridge of Tweed

Keyword(s): Bridges - Rivers & Streams

Artist: William Westall

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. 2, facing p. 44

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

Image File Name: 0014459d.jpg


Notes: Depicts the old bridge over the River Tweed, with Eildon Hills in the background. (Drawn from a sketch by J. Skene) Accompanying quoted text (p. 44): 'This was, however . . . traced by the curious' [Ch. 5; EEWN 9, 62.38-41]. Compare the drawing by Skene at #SKE0056. Legend states published June 1831.

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