Record Number: SKE0006

Related Work: Waverley

Illustration Title/Caption: Carlisle Castle

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses - Punishment & Torture - Soldiers

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. 18

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts the Gate of Carlisle Castle, with Fergus Mac-Ivor and Evan Dhu Maccombich being led out on a sledge for execution, and troops of soldiers drawn up. Accompanying quoted text (p. 18), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'Through the deep . . . on the drawbridge. / Waverley, Vol. II, p. 390.’ See Ch. 69; EEWN 1, 349-50. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1829.

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