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Record Number: NTD0041

Related Work: Woodstock

Illustration Title/Caption: [Maypole of Woodstock?]

Keyword(s): Games - Castles & Fortresses

Artist: John Wilson Ewbank

Engraver: William Home Lizars

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 4.5 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. 8 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1827/8

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts two small figures below a large tree, with a long pole before them, with buildings with towers and turrets in the distance. Likely to refer to Ch. 3, where Joseph Tomkins and Jocelin Joliffe pause before the King's Oak and the Maypole of Woodstock. Illustration title given as 'vignette of a castle in the distance' in Todd & Bowden 279A. Also appears in 'Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley' [8vo issue], 7 vols (Edinburgh: Constable & Co., 1827), vol. 7.

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