Record Number: NTD0031

Related Work: Peveril of the Peak

Illustration Title/Caption: [Holm-Peel]

Keyword(s): Boats - Castles & Fortresses - Seascapes

Artist: Alexander Nasmyth

Engraver: W. Archibald

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 5 x 7.5

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. 7 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: NLS, NG. 1172.i

Image File Name: 0014480d.jpg

Notes: Depicts fortified island, with castle and church(es) on mount, with boats and boatmen in foreground. [Compare Ch. 15; EEWN 14, 151]. Illustration title from 'The Waverley Album' (London: Charles Heath, [1832]), where same image appears facing p. 46, 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. 5.

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