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Record Number: FIS0007

Related Work: Waverley

Illustration Title/Caption: Carlisle Castle. Execution of Fergus Mac-Ivor & Evan Dhu / Chateau de Carlisle. Execution de Fergus Mac-Ivor et d'Evan Dhu

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses - Horses - Punishment & Torture - Soldiers

Artist: Thomas Miles Richardson

Engraver: James Carter

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8 x 13.3

Date: 1836

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 2, facing p. 390

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

Image File Name: 0014647d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Carlisle Castle and the crowd assembling for the executions of Fergus MacIvor and Evan Dhu [Ch. 69]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 6] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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