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Record Number: LIW0067

Related Work: Quentin Durward

Illustration Title/Caption: Tours

Keyword(s): Boats - Bridges - Rivers & Streams - Towns & Cities

Artist: Samuel Prout

Engraver: Edward Francis Finden

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 7.5 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. 67

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Tours, on the Loire River. Accompanying quoted text (p. 67): 'About two miles onward lies the fine city of Tours' [Ch. 3; EEWN 15, 42.4]. Legend states published August 1831. Also appears in the Fisher edition of the Waverley Novels: see #FIS0091.

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