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Record Number: NTD0050

Related Work: Surgeon's Daughter, The

Illustration Title/Caption: [Street of Middlemas?]

Keyword(s): Towns & Cities - Cottages

Artist: John Wilson Ewbank

Engraver: James Johnstone

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 5.5 x 7.5

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. 17 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: BL 12604.c.6

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the main street of a village, with the figures of three women approaching house with iron railing and gate. Probably relates to the scene in which three 'old dames' of the village approach the house of Doctor Gray [Ch. 15; EEWN 20, 160-61]. Illustration title given as 'vignette of a village lane' in Todd & Bowden 282A.

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