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Record Number: FIS0062

Related Work: Abbot, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Solway Frith, Embarkation of Queen Mary / Detroit de Solway, Embarquement de la Reine Marie

Keyword(s): Attendants & Servants - Boats - Mary Queen of Scots

Artist: Henry Melville

Engraver: John Smith

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.2 x 13

Date: 1837

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 21 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/21

Image File Name: 0007320d.jpg


Notes: Depicts the departure of Mary Queen of Scots from Scotland by sailing vessel over the Solway Firth [Ch. 38]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 54] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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