Record Number: SKE0042

Related Work: Bride of Lammermoor, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Links of Eyemouth

Keyword(s): Boats - Cliffs - Seascapes

Artist: James Skene

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 5.8 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. 110

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts harbour at Eyemouth, as in the present time, with reference to the quick-sands in the closing stages of the story. Accompanying quoted texts (p. 110), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'When the last Laird . . . lost for evermore!' [4 lines verse] / Bride of Lammermoor, Vol. XIV, p. 128' and 'The links by the sea-shore . . . our only weapons. / Vol. XIV, p. 363.' See Chs 18 & 32; EEWN 7a, 139, 265. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1830. Compare Tilt's 'Landscape Illustrations', #LIW0034, also of Links of Eyemouth, stated to be from a drawing by Skene, and where the composition is similar, though with minor variations (e.g. figures in foreground).

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