Record Number: FIS0029

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: Castle of Tillietudlem / Chateau de Tillietudlem

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses - Forests & Woodlands - Horses - Tillietudlem, Tower of

Artist: Henry Melville

Engraver: James Harfield Kernot

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.4 x 13.3

Date: 1836

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 10 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/10

Image File Name: 0014476d.jpg

Notes: Depicts a mounted trooper approaching the Tower of Tillietudlem from below, in a heavily wooded gorge; possibly reflecting the arrival there of Sergeant Bothwell [Ch. 9]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 25] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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