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Record Number: NTD0043

Related Work: Highland Widow, The

Illustration Title/Caption: [River Awe?]

Keyword(s): Glens - Rivers & Streams - Waterfalls

Artist: John Wilson Ewbank

Engraver: James Johnstone

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 6 x 8.5

Date: 1833

Source Text: Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley [16mo issue], 8 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833)

Position in Source Text: vol. 10 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: BL 12604.c.6

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts river surrounded by mountains, with a long waterfall running down one of these in the distance. Probably relates to the description of the River Awe in first chapter of story (see EEWN 20, 72-73). Illustration title given as 'vignette of waterfall and stream' in Todd & Bowden 282A. Also appears in 'Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley' [8vo issue], 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833), vol. 8.

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