Record Number: SKE0056

Related Work: Monastery, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Old Bridge of Tweed

Keyword(s): Bridges - Rivers & Streams

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. 152

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts the Old Bridge of Tweed, with Eildon Hills in background. Accompanying quoted text (p. 153), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'A bridge was then standing . . . river was complete. / Monastery, Vol. XVIII, p. 64.' See Ch. 5; EEWN 9, 62-63. Originally issued as part of a separate number 1830. Compare Tilt's 'Landscape Illustrations', #LIW0044, also of Old Bridge of Tweed, stated to be from a drawing by Skene, and where the composition is similar, though with variations in detail.

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