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Record Number: LIW0066

Related Work: Peveril of the Peak

Illustration Title/Caption: The Tower, 1670

Keyword(s): Boats - Castles & Fortresses - London - Prisons & Prisoners - Rivers & Streams

Artist: David Roberts

Engraver: Edward Francis Finden

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8 x 11.5

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. 66

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the Tower of London from the River Thames. Accompanying quoted text (p. 66): 'The tide carried them . . . well-known Traitors' Gate' [Ch. 36; EEWN 14, 388.19-25]. Legend states published February 1832. Also appears in the Fisher edition of the Waverley Novels: see #FIS0089.

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