Record Number: LIW0059

Related Work: Pirate, The

Illustration Title/Caption: St. Magnus

Keyword(s): Churches & Churchyards

Artist: William Purser

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. 59

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts the Cathedral of St Magnus, in Kirkwall, Orkney. (Drawn from a sketch by the Marchioness of Stafford) Accompanying quoted text (p. 59): 'The sisters were admiring the massive church of St Magnus' [Ch. 36; EEWN 12, 331.18-19]. Legend states published October 1830.

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