logoIllustrating Scott

Record Number: WAG0014

Related Work: Fair Maid of Perth, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Catharine

Keyword(s): Glover, Catharine - Portraits - Prisons & Prisoners

Artist: William Drummond

Engraver: William Henry Egleton

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 13.2 x 10.7

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 14]

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Catharine Glover wearing a tartan shawl poking a stick through the metal bars to deliver food to a prisoner. Accompanying quoted text: 'Here is dead silence . . . the preserver of my life!' [Ch. 32].

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