Record Number: NTD0025

Related Work: Pirate, The

Illustration Title/Caption: [Roost of Sumburgh]

Keyword(s): Seascapes

Artist: Alexander Nasmyth

Engraver: W. Archibald

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 6 x 8

Date: 1824

Source Text: Novels and Romances of the Author of Waverley [12mo issue], 9 vols (Edinburgh: Constable & Co., 1824)

Position in Source Text: vol. 1 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: NLS, NG. 1172.i

Image File Name: 0014509d.jpg

Notes: Depicts large rock, rising from sea, with fortified house at foot. [Compare Ch. 1: EEWN 12, 5]. Illustration title from 'The Waverley Album' (London: Charles Heath, [1832]), where same image appears facing p. 40, with Alexander Nasmyth as artist and Edward Finden as engraver (see image). Also appears in 'Novels and Romances of the Author of Waverley' [8vo issue], 7 vols (Edinburgh: Constable & Co., 1824), vol. 1. Similar but not identical to #CEN0026.

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