Record Number: SKE0046

Related Work: Ivanhoe

Illustration Title/Caption: Vale of the Don

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses - Forests & Woodlands - 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: leaf preceding p. 123

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts Vale of the Don, with Coningsburgh Castle in middle distance. Accompanying quoted texts (p. 123), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'In that pleasant district . . . town of Doncaster. / Ivanhoe, Vol. XVI, p. 3' and 'There are few . . . ancient Saxon fortress, [Coningsburgh].' See Chs 1 & 41; EEWN 8, 15, 368. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1830.

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