Record Number: SKE0041

Related Work: Bride of Lammermoor, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Coldingham Priory

Keyword(s): Churches & Churchyards - Monasteries - Ruins

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. 106

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts Coldingham Priory, with the remnant of the original in ruins. Accompanying quoted text (p. 107), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'Under the very arch . . . decayed prosperity. / Bride of Lammermoor, Vol. XIII, p. 289.' See Ch. 2; EEWN 7a, 20. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1830. Compare Tilt's 'Landscape Illustrations', #LIW0032, also of Coldingham, stated to be from a drawing by Skene, and where the composition is similar, with variant details (e.g. presence of cattle within ruined arch).

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