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Record Number: SKE0023

Related Work: Black Dwarf, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Dwarf's Hut

Keyword(s): Black Dwarf, The ('Canny Elshie', Sir Edward Manley) - Cottages

Artist: James Skene

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 7.8 x 13.4

Date: 1830

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. 54[2]

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the Black Dwarf's hut, with trees behind, and two goats in the foreground. Accompanying quoted text (p. 54[2]), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'The inside of his hut . . . do their Morai. / Black Dwarf, Vol. IX, p. 44.' See Ch. 4; EEWN 4a, 32. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1830.

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