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Record Number: LIW0048

Related Work: Abbot, The

Illustration Title/Caption: High Street, Edinburgh

Keyword(s): Birds - Edinburgh - Horses - Hunting

Artist: Thomas Stothard

Engraver: William Radclyffe

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8 x 11

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. 48

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

Image File Name: 0007324d.jpg


Notes: Depicts the High Street of Edinburgh, facing east, with two horsemen on causeway (one with hawk in hand) among assorted pedestrians. Accompanying quoted text (p. 48): 'The principal street of Edinburgh . . . specimens in Europe' [Ch. 17; EEWN 10, 135.9-10]. Legend states published August 1831.

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