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Record Number: SKE0014

Related Work: Rob Roy

Illustration Title/Caption: Glasgow Cathedral

Keyword(s): Churches & Churchyards - Glasgow - Rivers & Streams

Artist: James Skene

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 8 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. 36

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Glasgow Cathedral, with Gallowgate Burn in foreground. Accompanying quoted text (p. 37), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'Situated in a populous . . . solemnity of the scene. / Rob Roy, Vol. VIII, p. 27.' See Ch. 19; EEWN 5, 156-57. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1829.

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