Record Number: SKE0009

Related Work: Guy Mannering

Illustration Title/Caption: Rueberry Castle

Keyword(s): Boats - Cliffs - Pirates & Robbers - Seascapes - Shipwrecks

Artist: James Skene

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 7 x 13.4

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. 24

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts cliffs along north coast of Solway Firth, with a stormy sea below, and two ships, one wrecked on the rocks, with small figures fleeing. Accompanying quoted text (p. 22), with reference to original edition: 'Some time afterwards . . . with the blue sky. / Guy Mannering, Vol. I, p. 138.’ See Ch. 9; EEWN 2, 48-49. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1829.

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