Record Number: POR0038

Related Work: Anne of Geierstein

Illustration Title/Caption: Bale [sic]

Keyword(s): Boats - Churches & Churchyards - Towns & Cities

Artist: George Barret, the younger

Engraver: James Baylis Allen

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 11.5 x 14.5

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 38]

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts the city of Basle, with a harbour in the foreground and church steeples in the distance. Accompanying quoted text, with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'The Rhine, a broad and large river . . . into portions the city of Basle—-Vol. XLIV, p. 137.’ See Ch. 8; EEWN 22, 75.11-13. Imprint of Chapman & Hall dated 1833. Also appears in the Fisher edition of the Waverley Novels: see #FIS0136.

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