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Record Number: EWA0005

Related Work: Waverley

Illustration Title/Caption: Fergus Mac-Ivor introduces Waverley to the Prince

Keyword(s): Charles Edward Stuart, Prince ('Father Buonaventure') - Highlanders - Jacobitism - MacIvor, Fergus - Waverley, Edward

Artist: John Blake McDonald

Engraver: Lumb Stocks

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 15.8 x 23

Date: 1865

Source Text: Eight Engravings in Illustration of Waverley for the Members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland ([Edinburgh: the Association], 1865)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 5]

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.RAPFAS.2

Image File Name: 0030059d.jpg


Notes: Depicts Waverley in Holyrood Palace kneeling before and kissing the hand of Charles Edward, while a bearded Fergus looks on; various other male figures converse behind a table near the back. Accompanying quoted text: ‘The politic Chieftain . . . vindication of his rights’ [Ch. 40; EEWN 1, 206].

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