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Record Number: CAB0009

Related Work: Bride of Lammermoor, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Ravenswood and Lucy Ashton

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Ashton, Lucy - Ravenswood, Edgar

Artist: William Allan

Engraver: Robert Edward Branston

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 9.5 x 7.5

Date: 1841

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 8 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1171.i/8

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Edgar Ravenswood, with his hunting gun, and Lucy Ashton in a semi-embrace by the fountain in a woodland setting. She rests her head on his shoulder as he places his hand over his heart [Ch. 20]. No artist given, but apparently a reengraving of #ILN0012, by William Allan.

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