Record Number: SKE0005

Related Work: Waverley

Illustration Title/Caption: Battle of Prestonpans

Keyword(s): Battles - Highlanders - Jacobitism - Soldiers

Artist: James Skene

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 6 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. 16

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts Battle of Prestonpans, with Highlanders engaging cavalry in foreground. Accompanying quoted text (p. 16), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'It was at this moment . . . within his aim. / Waverley, Vol. II, p. 168.’ See Ch. 47; EEWN 1, 240-41. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1829.

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