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Record Number: SKE0004

Related Work: Waverley

Illustration Title/Caption: White Horse Inn

Keyword(s): Edinburgh - Highlanders - Inns & Taverns

Artist: James Skene

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 8 x 13.3

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. 14

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts White Horse Inn, in Close off the Canongate, with Highlanders in the foreground, and clothing hung out to dry. Accompanying quoted text (p. 13), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'He reached the door . . . called the Canongate. / Waverley, Vol. II, p. 106.’ See Ch. 41; EEWN 1, 210. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1829. Compare Tilt’s ‘Landscape Illustrations’, #LIW0006, also of White Horse Inn, stated to be from a drawing by Skene, and where the composition is similar, though with minor variations (as in the disposition of figures).

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