Record Number: SKE0013

Related Work: Rob Roy

Illustration Title/Caption: Glasgow 1764

Keyword(s): Glasgow

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: leaf preceding p. 35

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts the City of Glasgow, as 'taken from a representation . . . that appears to have been executed in the year 1764’ (p. 35). Accompanying quoted text (p. 35), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: ‘The fertile vale of Clyde opened upon us. / Rob Roy, Vol. VIII, p. 23.’ See Ch. 19; EEWN 5, 154. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1829.

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