logoIllustrating Scott

Record Number: NTE0027

Related Work: Redgauntlet

Illustration Title/Caption: Redgauntlet / Meeting of Father Buonaventure with Allan Fairford, Miss Arthuret, & Miss Seraphina

Keyword(s): Arthuret, Angelica - Arthuret, Seraphina - Clergy - Fairford, Alan - Jacobitism - Charles Edward Stuart, Prince ('Father Buonaventure')

Artist: William Heath

Engraver: William Home Lizars

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 8.5 x 7

Date: 1828

Source Text: Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley [18mo issue], 7 vols (Edinburgh: Cadell & Co., 1828)

Position in Source Text: vol. 2 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: BL 12604.a.4

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Charles Edward Stuart, dressed as a priest and wearing cockade, entertained by the Arthuret sisters in their apartment, with Alan Fairford looking on [Ch. 16]. Vol. also contains title-page vignette illustration of 'a footbridge' [Todd & Bowden], drawn by J. B. Kidd and engraved by W. H. Lizars, apparently not used in any other set.

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