Record Number: SKE0030

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: The Creehope Linn

Keyword(s): Caves - Waterfalls

Artist: James Skene

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 13.4 x 7.8

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: leaf preceding p. 73

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts the Creehope Linn, as a site of concealment for Covenanters, and apparently as an equivalent for Balfour of Burley's cave as in the story. Accompanying quoted text (p. 73), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'The terrible cavern called Creehope Linn . . . professors of non-conformity. / Old Mortality, Vol. XI, p. 100.' See Ch. 43; EEWN 4b, 336. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1830.

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