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Record Number: SKE0026

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: Craignethan Castle

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses - Tillietudlem, Tower of

Artist: James Skene

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 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. 62

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Craignethan Castle as an equivalent for Tillietudlem. Accompanying quoted text (p. 63), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'The Tower of Tillietudlem stood . . . with the Clyde. / Old Mortality, Vol. X, p. 48.' See Ch. 11; EEWN 4b, 97. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1830.

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