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Record Number: SKE0008

Related Work: Guy Mannering

Illustration Title/Caption: Court of Caerlaverock

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses - Ellangowan

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. 22

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts interior of Caerlaverock Castle, as an equivalent for that of the old castle of Ellangowan, with a figure in the foreground. Accompanying quoted text (p. 22), with reference to original edition: 'Upon entering the gateway . . . lofty and large, &c. / Guy Mannering, Vol. I, p. 62.’ See Ch. 4; EEWN 2, 22. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1829.

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