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Record Number: LIW0060

Related Work: Fortunes of Nigel, The

Illustration Title/Caption: St. Cuthberts

Keyword(s): Churches & Churchyards - Lakes - Edinburgh - Edinburgh Castle

Artist: David Roberts

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. 60

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the old church of St Cuthbert's, below the Edinburgh Castle. (Drawn from a sketch by J. Skene) Accompanying quoted text (p. 60): 'But there are . . . St Cuthbert's Kirk-yard' [Ch. 3; EEWN 13, 45.16-17]. Legend states published November 1831.

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