Record Number: SKE0028

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: Bothwell Bridge

Keyword(s): Battles - Bridges - Soldiers

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. 68

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts Bothwell Bridge, with contestants in battle on the bridge and in surrounding countryside. Accompanying quoted text (p. 69), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'The ammunition of the defenders of the Bridge began to fail at this important crisis. / Old Mortality, Vol. X, p. 355.' See Ch. 32; EEWN 4b, 256. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1830.

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