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Record Number: FIS0014

Related Work: Antiquary, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Bally-burgh Ness / Pointe de Bally-burgh

Keyword(s): Beggars - Cliffs - Mountains & Hills - Ochiltree, Edie - Seascapes - Wardour, Isabella - Wardour, Sir Arthur

Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner

Engraver: Edward Francis Finden

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.2 x 13.4

Date: 1836

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 5 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/5

Image File Name: 0007359d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Sir Arthur and Isabella Wardour with Edie Ochiltree, stranded on the beach, with the sun setting (incorrectly in the east) on the horizon of a turbulent sea [Ch. 7]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 12] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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