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Record Number: SSR0004

Related Work: Monastery, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Glendearg / Monastery Vol. I, p. 119

Keyword(s): Christie of Clinthill - Eustace, Father ('William Allan') - Journeys & Travellers - Monks & Nuns - Rivers & Streams

Artist: George Cattermole

Engraver: James Tibbetts Willmore

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 9.5 x 14

Date: 1835

Source Text: Leitch Ritchie, Scott and Scotland (London: Longman, 1835)

Position in Source Text: facing p. 62

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson E.RIT.3874

Image File Name: 0007598d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Father Eustace riding alongside the river, with Christie of Clinthill galloping behind in the distance [Ch 9]. Accompanying description (pp. 63) reads: 'The scene is in the dale of the Allan near Melrose, and includes the identical spot where the sub-prior was overtaken by Christie of the Clinthill'. Title/caption reference relates to Magnum Opus edition. Later published in H. I. and A. Stevens, 'Scott and Scotland' (London, 1845): see image.

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