Record Number: FIS0006

Related Work: Waverley

Illustration Title/Caption: Lady Waverley! ten thousand a-year! / Lady Waverley! Dix mille livres de revenu!

Keyword(s): Books - Law & Lawyers - Libraries - Macwheeble, Duncan - Waverley, Edward

Artist: George Cruikshank

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 8.2 x 12.9

Date: 1836

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 2, facing p. 355

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/2

Image File Name: 0014648d.jpg

Notes: Depicts Bailie Macwheeble jumping and throwing his cap in the air in excitement at the news that Waverley, who sits in a chair at a desk covered with piles of paper, intends to marry Rose Bradwardine [Ch. 66; EEWN 1, 332.12]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 4] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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