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Record Number: MAG0071

Related Work: Redgauntlet

Illustration Title/Caption: Redgauntlet / 'Are you come light-handed . . . that does something clever.' [4 lines]

Keyword(s): Art & Paintings - Contracts - MacCallum, Dougal - Money - Music - Redgauntlet, Sir Robert - Steenson, Steenie

Artist: David Octavius Hill

Engraver: Augustus Fox

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 10.5 x 7.5

Date: 1832

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Magnum Opus edition], 48 vols (Edinburgh: Cadell & Company, 1829-33)

Position in Source Text: vol. 36 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1829-33/36

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Steenie Steenson, bagpipes under his arm, presenting bag of money as rent to Sir Robert Redgauntlet, with Dougal MacCallum in attendance [Letter 11; EEWN 17.90.1-5]. Exhibited Royal Scottish Academy, no. 241, 1832.

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