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Record Number: NTD0024

Related Work: Kenilworth

Illustration Title/Caption: [Warwick Castle]

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses - Forests & Woodlands

Artist: Alexander Nasmyth

Engraver: W. Archibald

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 6 x 7.5

Date: 1822

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 8 (title-page vignette)

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

Image File Name: 0007565d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Castle in middle distance, with trees and open verdure in foreground. Illustration title from 'The Waverley Album' (London: Charles Heath, [1832]), where same image appears facing p. 34, with engraver listed 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. 5.

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