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Record Number: FIS0103

Related Work: Redgauntlet

Illustration Title/Caption: Dougal Mac Callum and Hutcheon

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Attendants & Servants - MacCallum, Dougal - Weir, Major

Artist: George Cruikshank

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 7.9 x 12.9

Date: 1838

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 35, facing p. 176

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

Image File Name: 0014593d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Dougal MacCallum and his fellow servant Hutcheon entering the room where Sir Robert Redgauntlet's coffin is placed, to find the ape 'Major Weir' sitting on it [Letter 11]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 72] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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