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Record Number: LIW0075

Related Work: Redgauntlet

Illustration Title/Caption: Lagg Castle

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses - Glens - Ruins

Artist: David Roberts

Engraver: Edward Francis Finden

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8 x 11.8

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. 75

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts ruined Lagg Castle in the Glen of Lagg, Dumfriesshire. (Drawn from a sketch by J. Skene) Accompanying quoted text (p. 75): 'They rode into the outer court-yard' [Letter 11; EEWN 17, 95.41]. Legend states published August 1831. Also appears in the Fisher edition of the Waverley Novels: see #FIS0104.

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