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Record Number: LIW0062

Related Work: Fortunes of Nigel, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Heriot's Hospital

Keyword(s): Churches & Churchyards - Edinburgh - Graves

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. 62

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh, seen from Greyfriars Churchyard. Accompanying quoted text (p. 62): 'I think mine own estate . . . greater men' [Ch. 29; EEWN 13, 329.27-28]. Legend states published December 1831. Also appears in the Fisher edition of the Waverley Novels: see #FIS0082.

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