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Record Number: KEP0004

Related Work: Heart of Mid-Lothian, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Jeanie in the Outlaw's Hut

Keyword(s): Deans, Jeanie - Murdockson, Meg - Pirates & Robbers - Wildfire, Madge (Madge Murdockson)

Artist: Henry James Richter

Engraver: Charles Rolls

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 10.5 x 8

Date: 1832

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

Position in Source Text: facing p. 283

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

Image File Name: 0007452d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Jeanie Deans in sleeping position on straw in hovel, with crone-like woman holding a candle and looking at her, while another female sleeps in sprawling position behind [Ch. 31]. Employed here to illustrate a short tale, 'The Outlaw's Bride', by Leitch Ritchie.

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