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Record Number: FIS0013

Related Work: Guy Mannering

Illustration Title/Caption: Carlaverock Castle. The Common of Ellangowan / Chateau de Carlaverock. Communes d'Ellangowan

Keyword(s): Bertram, Henry ('Vanbeest Brown') - Bertram, Lucy - Dinmont, Dandy - Ellangowan - Gypsies & Vagrants - Mannering, Julia - Merrilies, Meg - Mountains & Hills

Artist: Henry Melville

Engraver: James Harfield Kernot

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.2 x 13.2

Date: 1836

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 4, facing p. 313

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/4

Image File Name: 0007427d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Meg Merrilies bidding Harry Bertram and Dandy Dinmont to go with her, as Julia Mannering and Lucy Bertram retreat homeward on the left, with a mountain and Ellangowan in the background. [Ch. 53] Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 11] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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