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Record Number: SKE0050

Related Work: Ivanhoe

Illustration Title/Caption: Coningsburgh

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses

Artist: James Skene

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 12.4 x 8

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. 134

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts tower of partly-ruined Coningsburgh Castle. Accompanying quoted text (p. 134), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'When Coeur de Lion . . . rude barrier of palisades. / Ivanhoe, Vol. XVII, p. 331.' See Ch. 41; EEWN 8, 368. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1830.

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