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Record Number: SKE0053

Related Work: Monastery, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Bastel House

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses

Artist: James Skene

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 7.7 x 13

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. 146

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Bastel Tower in the village of Darnick. Accompanying quoted text (p. 146), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'These small peel-houses . . . garrison these points of defence. / Monastery, Vol. XVIII, p. 5.' See Ch. 1; EEWN 9, 33. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1830.

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