Record Number: SKE0018

Related Work: Rob Roy

Illustration Title/Caption: Fort of Alianan

Keyword(s): Highlands - Mountains & Hills - Rivers & Streams - Soldiers

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. 48

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts the Ford over the Forth, close to Aberfoyle, with a party of soldiers crossing the river. Accompanying quoted text (p. 49), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'The Forth . . . horseman to descend at once. / Rob Roy, Vol. VIII, p. 259.' See Ch. 33; EEWN 5, 278. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1829.

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