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Record Number: SKE0001

Related Work: Waverley

Illustration Title/Caption: Doune Castle

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses - Doune Castle - Highlanders

Artist: James Skene

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 7.5 x 13.5

Date: 1829

Source Text: A Series of Sketches of the Existing Localities alluded to in the Waverley Novels Etched from Original Drawings (Edinburgh: Cadell & Co., 1829[-1831])

Position in Source Text: facing p. 8

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson B.SKE.3

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Doune Castle, with two horsemen and Highlanders in foreground. Accompanying quoted text (p. 9), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'On the opposite bank . . . rays of the sun. / Waverley, Vol. II, p. 78.’ See Ch. 38; EEWN 1, 197. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1829.

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