Record Number: NTD0032

Related Work: Quentin Durward

Illustration Title/Caption: [Castle of Plessis-le-Tours]

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses

Artist: Alexander Nasmyth

Engraver: W. Archibald

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 6 x 7

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. 8 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: NLS, NG. 1172.i

Image File Name: 0014517d.jpg

Notes: Depicts extensive castle, with outer fortifications, and three small figures in foreground [Compare Ch. 3; EEWN 15, 39-40]. Illustration title from 'The Waverley Album' (London: Charles Heath, [1832]), where same image appears facing p. 48, 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. 7.

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