Record Number: POR0034

Related Work: Fair Maid of Perth, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Fair Maid of Perth

Keyword(s): Glover, Catharine - Portraits

Artist: Charles Landseer

Engraver: Charles Eden Wagstaff

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 14.5 x 9

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 34]

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Portrait of Catharine Glover at prayer, wearing a tartan shawl. Accompanying quoted text, with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'She had sunk on her knees to pray . . . posture to return thanks’—Vol. XLII, p. 91.’ See Ch. 5; EEWN 21, 44.35-37. Imprint of Chapman & Hall dated 1 June 1833. Also appears in the Fisher edition of the Waverley Novels: see #FIS0121.

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