logoIllustrating Scott

Record Number: FIS0002

Related Work: Waverley

Illustration Title/Caption: 'Eh, sirs!' / 'Oh messieurs!'

Keyword(s): Forests & Woodlands - Rivers & Streams - Tully-Veolan - Waverley, Edward

Artist: George Cruikshank

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 8.2 x 13

Date: 1836

Source Text: Waverley Novels, 48 vols (London: Fisher, Son & Co., 1836-39)

Position in Source Text: vol. 1, facing p. 85

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/1

Image File Name: 0014644d.jpg


Notes: Depicts two women washing clothing in large tubs with their feet, as Edward Waverley enters from the right, and discovers them from across a stream, in the gardens of Tully-Veolan, which is visible through the trees. [Ch. 9; EEWN 1, 40.24] Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 4] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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