logoIllustrating Scott

Record Number: PEO0002

Related Work: [none]

Illustration Title/Caption: Waverley Novels Vol I

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Art & Paintings - Battles - Dogs - MacIvor, Fergus - Merrilies, Meg - Scott, Sir Walter

Artist: William Harvey

Engraver: Robert Edward Branston

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 19.8 x 11.8

Date: 1847

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 1 (engraved title-page)

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Collage of images associated with the works in this volume (i.e. Waverley, Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Rob Roy, and Old Mortality), which includes a bust of Scott, several large figures, including what are probably meant to be Fergus MacIvor and Meg Merrilies, and a central battle scene (possibly reflecting Rob Roy). Imprint date of 1847, letterpress title-page dated 1843.

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