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Record Number: FIS0118

Related Work: Highland Widow, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Hamish Bean & his Mother

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Cottages - Highlanders - MacTavish, Elspat - MacTavish, Hamish Bean

Artist: Francis William Topham

Engraver: Joseph Clayton Bentley

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.3 x 13.2

Date: 1838

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 41 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/41

Image File Name: 0007492d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Hamish MacTavish and his mother Elspat standing beside their hut, as a party of soldiers arrives in the distance, with Hamish holding a gun and his mother advising him to resist [Ch. 11]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 82] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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