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Record Number: NTE0004

Related Work: Antiquary, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Antiquary / The Antiquary Incensed at the Intrusion on his Sanctum Sanctorum

Keyword(s): Oldbuck, Jonathan (of Monkbarns) - Lovel, Mr - Rintherout, Jenny - McIntyre, Maria - Arms & Armaments - Books - Libraries - Attendants & Servants

Artist: Charles Robert Leslie

Engraver: Edward J. Portbury

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 9 x 7

Date: 1823

Source Text: Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley [18mo issue], 12 vols (Edinburgh: Constable & Co., 1823)

Position in Source Text: vol. 4 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1177.f.18

Image File Name: 0007364d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Jonathan Oldbuck entering his study with Lovel, and surprising the chambermaid Jenny Rintherout, while his niece, Maria McIntyre, looks on [Ch. 3]. Imprint of Hurst, Robinson, & Co., London (the secondary publishers on title-page). Also appears in 'The Waverley Album' (London: Charles Heath, [1832]), facing p. 9 (see image). Vol. also includes title-page vignette of Dundee, as in vol. 5 of 1821 12mo issue, but with engraver given as Charles Heath.

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