Record Number: NTD0045

Related Work: Fair Maid of Perth, The

Illustration Title/Caption: [Two Boats]

Keyword(s): Boats - Rivers & Streams

Artist: David Octavius Hill

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. 12 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: BL 12604.c.6

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts a rowing boat and sailing vessel close to each other on a river, with figures visible in each. Also appears in 'Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley' [8vo issue], 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833), vol. 10. Resembles the depiction of the barge of the Duke of Rothesay and Henshaw's boat [Ch. 30; EEWN 12, 323] in the vignette to vol. 43 of the Magnum Opus edition; see #MAG0086, though engraver there differs. Illustration title as given in Todd & Bowden 282A.

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