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Record Number: POR0024

Related Work: Fortunes of Nigel, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Margaret Ramsay

Keyword(s): Portraits - Ramsay, Margaret

Artist: William Boxall

Engraver: Henry Robinson

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 11 x 8.5

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 24]

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Portrait of Margaret Ramsay wearing a white bonnet, sitting in a chair, looking off to the side. Accompanying quoted text, with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'At length they attained . . . discontented and disconsolate.'--Vol. XXVI, p. 155.' See Ch. 8; EEWN 13, 97.27-30. Imprint of Chapman & Hall dated 15 February 1833. Also appears in the Fisher edition of the Waverley Novels: see #FIS0079.

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