logoIllustrating Scott

Record Number: WAG0008

Related Work: Fair Maid of Perth, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Glee Maiden

Keyword(s): Dogs - Louise - Music - Portraits

Artist: Fanny McIan

Engraver: John Jewell Penstone

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 14.4 x 10.5

Date: 1841

Source Text: The Waverley Gallery of Principal Female Characters in Sir Walter Scott's Romances (London: Tilt & Bogue, 1841)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 8]

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.12.WAVG.1841

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the Glee Maiden Louise with a small black dog, and a stringed musical instrument on her back. Accompanying quoted text: 'The Glee-Maiden had planted herself . . . the freshness of early youth.' [Ch. 11].

<< Back

british academy logo