logoIllustrating Scott

Record Number: ABB0096

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Illustration Title/Caption: Sic Sedebat / Sir Walter Scott Bart. / From the Statue by Greenshields, 1830-31/ In the Possession of Mr Cadell, Edinburgh

Keyword(s): Portraits - Scott, Sir Walter

Artist: William Dickes

Engraver: George B. Shaw

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 13 x 8.5

Date: 1846

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 10 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: ABD, WS E13, vol. 10

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Engraving of the statue of Scott sculpted by John Greenshields between 1832 and 1835. Purchased from the artist by Robert Cadell, the statue was originally engraved for the second volume of Lockhart’s ‘Life of Scott’ (1837-38). See Russell, Francis, ‘Portraits of Sir Walter Scott’ (London: White Brothers, 1987), Item 74, p. 46. Also appears as a frontispiece to vol. 25 of the Cabinet edition of the Waverley Novels: see #CAB0026.

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