Record Number: SKE0024

Related Work: Black Dwarf, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Dwarf's Grave

Keyword(s): Churches & Churchyards - Graves

Artist: James Skene

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 6 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. 58

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts the burial of David Ritchie, supposed original of the Black Dwarf, in the churchyard at Manor. Accompanying text (p. 58), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'I am doubting we have lost Cannie Elshie for gude an' a'. / Black Dwarf, Vol. IX, p. 212.' See Ch. 18; EEWN 4a, 122. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1830.

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