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Record Number: LIW0057

Related Work: Pirate, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Kirwall, Orkney

Keyword(s): Boats

Artist: William Daniell

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. 57

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts large sailing vessels with smaller boats in the harbour at Kirkwall in Orkney. Accompanying quoted text (p. 57): 'The quay, with the shipping . . . vivacity to the scene' [Ch. 31; EEWN 12, 291.14]. Legend states published January 1831.

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