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Record Number: FIS0021

Related Work: Rob Roy

Illustration Title/Caption: Braes of Balquhidder / Couteaux de Balquhidder

Keyword(s): Combat & Duelling - Cottages - Highlanders - Mountains & Hills

Artist: Henry Melville

Engraver: James Sands

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. 7, facing p. lxxxiii

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

Image File Name: 0014605d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Highland setting with Highlanders drawn up in two troops, with two figures fighting in the space between. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 17] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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