Record Number: NTD0033

Related Work: Quentin Durward

Illustration Title/Caption: [Castle of Peronne]

Keyword(s): Boats - Castles & Fortresses

Artist: Alexander Nasmyth

Engraver: W. Archibald

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 7 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. 9 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: NLS, NG. 1172.i

Image File Name: 0014518d.jpg

Notes: Depicts castle as entered by a water under an archway, with sailing ships and rowing boats around. [Compare Ch. 25; EEWN 15, 273.] Illustration title from 'The Waverley Album' (London: Charles Heath, [1832]), where same image appears facing p. 50, 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. 6.

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