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Record Number: LIW0076

Related Work: Redgauntlet

Illustration Title/Caption: Solway Frith

Keyword(s): Boats - Moonlight - Seascapes

Artist: George Barret, the younger

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. 76

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the Solway Firth, at night, with boat and fishing equipment in the left foreground. Accompanying quoted text (p. 76): 'The moon shone broad . . . Solway Firth' [Ch. 3; EEWN 17, 151.35-36]. Artist surname given as Barnet on engraved plate, but as Barret in list of plates.

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