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Record Number: FIS0010

Related Work: Guy Mannering

Illustration Title/Caption: The Waste of Cumberland / Plaine de Cumberland

Keyword(s): Bertram, Henry ('Vanbeest Brown') - Dinmont, Dandy - Horses - Moonlight - Moorland

Artist: Henry Melville

Engraver: Robert Staines

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.3 x 13.4

Date: 1836

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 3, facing p. 237

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/3

Image File Name: 0007425d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Dandy Dinmont and Brown (Harry Bertram) fleeing from their assailant on the pony Dumple, over the Waste of Cumberland, as the dog Wasp follows them. [Ch. 23] Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 8] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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