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Record Number: KEP0002

Related Work: Waverley

Illustration Title/Caption: Flora

Keyword(s): Forests & Woodlands - Glennaquoich, Glen of - Harps - MacIvor, Flora

Artist: Louisa Sharpe

Engraver: Francis Engleheart

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 13 x 9.2

Date: 1832

Source Text: The Keepsake for 1833 (London: Longman & Co., 1832)

Position in Source Text: facing p. 136

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson E.KEE.6

Image File Name: 0014642d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Flora MacIvor at full length in flowing dress in woodland setting, besides pool, with another female figure behind her, holding a harp [Ch. 22]. Employed in 'The Keepsake' to illustrate 'The Brother and Sister. An Italian Story. By the Author of Frankenstein [Mary Shelley]'. Published later in 'Heath's Gallery of British Engravings', vol. 2 (London: Longman [etc.], 1836), titled 'Flora Mac Ivor'; and in H. I. and A. Stevens, 'Scott and Scotland' (London, 1845): see image.

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