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Record Number: FIS0034

Related Work: Heart of Mid-Lothian, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Jeanie, I say, Jeanie, woman / Jeannette, e'coute, Jeanette, ma fille

Keyword(s): Cottages - Courtship - Deans, Jeanie - Dumbiedikes, Laird of

Artist: George Cruikshank

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 8.1 x 12.5

Date: 1836

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 11, facing p. 322

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

Image File Name: 0007468d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Jeanie Deans moving away to avoid the hand of the Laird of Dumbiedikes, who reaches out to grab her shoulder, as he sits in her cottage in St Leonard's [Ch. 9; EEWN 6, 83.40]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 29] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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