Record Number: SKE0029

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: The Black Linn

Keyword(s): Bridges - Cliffs - Rivers & Streams

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. 72

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts the Black Linn, though without attempting to include Balfour of Burley's cave as in the story. Accompanying quoted text (p. 72), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'An awesome place . . . Linn of Linklater . . . An old oak tree . . . uncertain footing. / Old Mortality, Vol. XI, pp. 95, 99.' See Chs 42 & 43; EEWN 4b, 333, 335. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1830.

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