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Record Number: POR0012

Related Work: Legend of Montrose, A

Illustration Title/Caption: Annot Lyle

Keyword(s): Harps - Lyle, Annot - Portraits

Artist: Robert Edmonstone

Engraver: John Cochran

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 11.5 x 9.5

Date: 1834

Source Text: Portraits of the Principal Female Characters in the Waverley Novels; To Which Are Added Landscape Illustrations of The Highland Widow, Anne of Geierstein, Fair Maid of Perth, Castle Dangerous (London: Charles Tilt, 1834)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 12]

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.12.PORP.1834/1

Image File Name: 0007578d.jpg


Notes: Portrait of Annot Lyle, holding her harp, wearing a crucifix necklace. Accompanying quoted text, with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'Yet Annot's garments . . . pleased the wearer.'--Vol. XV, p. 126.' See Ch. 9; EEWN 7b, 73.23-26. Imprint of Chapman & Hall dated July 1833. Also appears as a separate print in the Corson Collection (P2931): see image.

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