Record Number: PEO0001

Related Work: [none]

Illustration Title/Caption: Sir Walter Scott, Bart.

Keyword(s): Dogs - Portraits - Scott, Sir Walter

Artist: Henry Raeburn

Engraver: John Horsburgh

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 14.9 x 11.7

Date: 1847

Source Text: Waverley Novels [People’s Edition] (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1842-47)

Position in Source Text: vol. 1 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson Add. A.7.a.1843-b/1

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Portrait of a young Scott by Henry Raeburn in 1808. Depicts Scott seated on a stone under a ruined wall, with a dog at his feet, with Hermitage Castle and the Hills of Liddesdale in the background. See Russell, Francis, ‘Portraits of Sir Walter Scott’ (London: White Brothers, 1987), Item 161, pp. 73-74. No imprint date for this frontispiece, though engraved title-page opposite is dated 1847, while main title-page imprint date is 1843, and that to ‘Waverley’, as the first novel contained, is 1842.

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