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Record Number: FIS0038

Related Work: Heart of Mid-Lothian, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Dunbarton Castle / Chateau de Dunbarton

Keyword(s): Boats - Castles & Fortresses - Cliffs - Seascapes

Artist: Henry Melville

Engraver: James Stephenson

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.2 x 13.2

Date: 1836

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 13 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/13

Image File Name: 0007464d.jpg


Notes: Depicts a small sailing boat in a choppy sea, apparently navigating a buoy, with large rock and Dunbarton Castle in the background [Ch. 52]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 32] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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