Record Number: NTD0040

Related Work: Talisman, The

Illustration Title/Caption: [Diamond of the Desert?]

Keyword(s): Fountains & Wells

Artist: William Home Lizars

Engraver: William Home Lizars

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 5 x 6.5

Date: 1827

Source Text: Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley [12mo issue], 9 vols (Edinburgh: Constable & Co., 1827)

Position in Source Text: vol. 7 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1827/7

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts a well, within a arched structure, with surrounding palm trees in an oasis setting. Likely to represent the Diamond of the Desert [Ch. 2] in the story. Illustration title given as 'vignette of an enclosed well' in Todd & Bowden 279A. Also appears in 'Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley' [8vo issue], 7 vols (Edinburgh: Constable & Co., 1827), vol. 6. Lizars given only as engraver in 12mo, but features as both artist and engraver in 8vo issue.

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