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Record Number: NTD0049

Related Work: Castle Dangerous

Illustration Title/Caption: [Douglas Water?]

Keyword(s): Cottages - Rivers & Streams

Artist: John Wilson Ewbank

Engraver: James Johnstone

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 5.5 x 8

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. 16 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: BL 12604.c.6

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts a meandering river, with cottages to the side, and distant mountains. Probably relates to the account of Douglas Water in the story [Ch. 1; EEWN 23b, 4]. Also appears in 'Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley' [8vo issue], 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833), vol. 14. Illustration title given as 'vignette of a cottage and a stream' in Todd & Bowden 282A.

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