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Record Number: FIS0033

Related Work: Old Mortality, The Tale of

Illustration Title/Caption: The Black Linn of Linklater / Le Linn Noir de Linklater

Keyword(s): Bridges - Morton, Henry - Waterfalls

Artist: Alexander Chisholm

Engraver: Timothy Stansfeld Engleheart

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.2 x 13.3

Date: 1836

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 11, facing p. 100

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/11

Image File Name: 0014676d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Morton, accompanied by his little girl guide, facing the bridge formed over chasm by an oak-trunk, on his way to confront Balfour of Burley [Ch. 43]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 27] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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