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Record Number: FIS0061

Related Work: Abbot, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Loch-Leven Castle / Le Chateau de Loch-Leven

Keyword(s): Boats - Castles & Fortresses - Lakes - Loch Leven Castle - Mountains & Hills

Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner

Engraver: James Baylis Allen

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.3 x 13.1

Date: 1837

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 20, facing p. 351

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/20

Image File Name: 0007317d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Loch Leven, with the Castle in the distance, and a body of horsemen moving towards a rowing boat apparently waiting on the shore. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 51] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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