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Record Number: CAB0006

Related Work: Black Dwarf, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Black Dwarf and Isabella Vere

Keyword(s): Black Dwarf, The ('Canny Elshie', Sir Edward Manley) - Books - Cottages - Dwarfs - Utensils - Vere, Isabel

Artist: William Allan

Engraver: Robert Edward Branston

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 9.5 x 7.3

Date: 1841

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Cabinet Edition] (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1841-43)

Position in Source Text: vol. 6 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1171.i/6

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Isabel Vere in the Black Dwarf’s hut, with the latter interposing and clutching her hand, as she attempts to leave [Ch. 16]. No artist given, but apparently a reengraving of #ILN0009, by William Allan.

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