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Record Number: MAG0082

Related Work: Highland Widow, The

Illustration Title/Caption: 'I must obey you mother . . . instantly was fast asleep.' [4 lines]

Keyword(s): MacTavish, Hamish Bean - MacTavish, Elspat - Medicine & Potions

Artist: Alexander Fraser, the elder

Engraver: William Henry Watt

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 7.5 x 7

Date: 1832

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 41 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1829-33/41

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Hamish MacTavish succumbing to the effect of the sleeping potion administered by his mother, who looks over him. [Ch. 11; EEWN 20, 97.5-8]

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