logoIllustrating Scott

Record Number: FIS0080

Related Work: Fortunes of Nigel, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Citizen and the Soldier / Le Bourgeois et le Soldat

Keyword(s): Combat & Duelling - Games

Artist: George Cruikshank

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 8 x 12.9

Date: 1838

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 26, facing p. 251

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/26

Image File Name: 0007413d.jpg


Notes: Depicts the aftermath of the combat in the bowling-alley, with the victorious 'citizen' heading off to the applause of the onlookers [Ch. 12]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 63] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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