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Record Number: LIW0046

Related Work: Abbot, The

Illustration Title/Caption: St. Mary's

Keyword(s): Cattle - 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. 2, facing p. 46

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

Image File Name: 0007307d.jpg


Notes: Depicts ruins of Melrose Abbey (interior) with cattle grazing. Accompanying quoted text (p. 46): 'An half-hour's walk . . . fury of the times' [Ch. 13; EEWN 10, 96-97]. Legend states published September 1830.

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