Record Number: FIS0035

Related Work: Heart of Mid-Lothian, The

Illustration Title/Caption: St Anthony's Chapel, Salisbury Crags / Chapelle St Antoine, Rochers de Salisbury

Keyword(s): Churches & Churchyards - Moonlight - Mountains & Hills - Ruins

Artist: Henry Melville

Engraver: Robert Staines

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. 12 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/12

Image File Name: 0007460d.jpg

Notes: Depicts St Anthony's Chapel (in ruins) outside Edinburgh, and the Salisbury Crags, with the Firth of Forth in the distance and a hooded female figure in the foreground; apparently representing Jeanie Deans's journey at night to Muschat's Cairn [Ch. 15]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 30] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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