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Record Number: SKE0031

Related Work: Heart of Mid-Lothian, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Heart of Mid-Lothian

Keyword(s): Churches & Churchyards - Edinburgh - Prisons & Prisoners

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: leaf preceding p. 77

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the Edinburgh Tolbooth, with side of St Giles Cathedral to the right. Accompanying quoted text (p. 77), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'The very reverend Tolbooth itself. / Heart of Mid-Lothian, Vol. XI, p. 175.' See Ch. 1, EEWN 6, 13. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1830.

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