Record Number: NTD0018

Related Work: Monastery, The

Illustration Title/Caption: [Abbey of St Mary, Kirkcaldy]

Keyword(s): Churches & Churchyards - Monasteries

Artist: Alexander Nasmyth

Engraver: W. Archibald

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 6 x 8

Date: 1822

Source Text: Historical Romances of the Author of Waverley [12mo issue], 8 vols (Edinburgh: Constable & Co., 1822)

Position in Source Text: vol. 2 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1172.h-i

Image File Name: 0014449d.jpg

Notes: Depicts large ecclesiastical building, with gateway in middleground. Illustration title from 'The Waverley Album' (London: Charles Heath, [1832]), where same image appears, facing p. 30, though with engraver given as Edward Finden, and no artist (see image). Also appears in 'Historical Romances of the Author of Waverley' [8vo issue], 8 vols (Edinburgh: Constable and Co., 1822), vol. 2.

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