Record Number: EWA0008

Related Work: Waverley

Illustration Title/Caption: Waverley’s Last Visit to Flora Mac-Ivor

Keyword(s): Books - Handicraft - MacIvor, Flora - Waverley, Edward

Artist: Robert Herdman

Engraver: Lumb Stocks

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 22 x 16

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 8]

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

Image File Name: 0030048d.jpg

Notes: Depicts Flora seated at a latticed window, white cloth in hand and embroidery materials nearby, and a religious book on a stand, with Waverley emerging from a doorway behind to meet her. Matches #BOR0013, but with different engraver. Accompanying quoted text: ‘When Edward reached . . . attention to neatness’ [Ch. 68; EEWN 1, 343-44]. The painting is dated 1864 (Corson).

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