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Record Number: FIS0120

Related Work: Fair Maid of Perth, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Fair Maid of Perth and Carthusian Monk / Le Belle de Perth & le Moine Carthusien

Keyword(s): Clement, Father (Blair, Clement) - Glover, Catharine - Monks & Nuns - Mountains & Hills - Religion

Artist: Alexander Chisholm

Engraver: Peter Lightfoot

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.4 x 12.6

Date: 1838

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 42 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1836-9/42

Image File Name: 0007412d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Catharine Glover listening devoutly to instructions from Father Clement under a rock beneath the hill of Kinnoul, with the vale of Tay behind them [Ch. 14]. Also appears in 'Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels' [Plate 83] (London: Fisher, [1836-38]): see image.

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