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Record Number: SKE0007

Related Work: Guy Mannering

Illustration Title/Caption: Caerlaverock Castle

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses

Artist: James Skene

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 7.5 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: leaf preceding p. 19

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Caerlaverock Castle, in open countryside, as an equivalent for the old Castle of Ellangowan. Accompanying quoted text (p. 19), with reference to original edition: 'The front of the old Castle . . . the inner court. / Guy Mannering, Vol. I, p. 58.’ See Ch. 4; EEWN 2, 21. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1829.

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