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Record Number: POR0035

Related Work: Fair Maid of Perth, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Loch Tay

Keyword(s): Lakes - Mountains & Hills

Artist: George Fennel Robson

Engraver: George Hollis

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.3 x 12.1

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 35]

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Loch Tay, with a mountain in the background. Accompanying quoted text, with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'The magnificent bosom of the lake itself was a scene to gaze on with delight--Vol. XLIII, p. 184.’ See Ch. 27; EEWN 21, 285.40-41. Imprint of Chapman & Hall dated August 1833. Also appears in the Fisher edition of the Waverley Novels: see #FIS0124.

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