Record Number: ABB0041

Related Work: Ivanhoe

Illustration Title/Caption: Durrenstein, on the Danube

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses - Cliffs - Rivers & Streams

Artist: David Wilkie

Engraver: William Miller

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 11.4 x 9.2

Date: 1844

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Abbotsford edition] (Edinburgh: Cadell, 1842-47)

Position in Source Text: vol. 4, facing internal title-page

Location of Copy: ABD, WS E13, vol. 4

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts the Castle and mountain of Durrenstein in the Dolomites on the Danube River. Illustrations list at front of volume adds 'Where Richard I was imprisoned', and to this adding a quotation from the ‘Life of Sir David Wilkie’: ‘Passed by the Castle of Durrenstein . . . peaceful security of modern times.’ Also appears in the Library Edition of the Waverley Novels, as vol. 9 frontispiece: see #LIB0017.

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