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Record Number: FIS0100

Related Work: Redgauntlet

Illustration Title/Caption: Salmon Hunting / La Chasse au Saumon

Keyword(s): Fishing - Horses - Hunting - Redgauntlet, Edward Hugh ('Herries of Birrenswork')

Artist: John Franklin

Engraver: Joseph Clayton Bentley

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.3 x 13.3

Date: 1838

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 35 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/35

Image File Name: 0014594d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Herries of Birrenswork spearing salmon on horseback, with other riders, on the Solway Firth [Letter 4]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 75] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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