Record Number: SKE0047

Related Work: Ivanhoe

Illustration Title/Caption: Rotherwood

Keyword(s): Eating & Drinking

Artist: James Skene

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 7 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. 126

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts interior of the Hall at (the fictitious) Rotherwood, 'taken from a description given in the "Gunnlanga Saga" of a state apartment, in the mansion of a Scandanavian chief' (p. 127). Accompanying quoted text (p. 127), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'And, pointing to a low irregular building . . . Cedric the Saxon. / Ivanhoe, Vol. XVI, p. 35.' See Ch. 2; EEWN 8, 32. Originally issued as part of a separate number 1830.

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