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Record Number: EGM0001

Related Work: Guy Mannering

Illustration Title/Caption: Ellangowan Castle by Moonlight

Keyword(s): Boats - Cliffs - Ellangowan - Moonlight - Seascapes

Artist: John McWhirter

Engraver: William Richardson

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 16.5 x 26.5

Date: 1866

Source Text: Six Engravings in Illustration of Guy Mannering for the Members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland ([Edinburgh: the Association], 1866)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 1]

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.RAPFAS.7

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts old Ellangowan Castle above cliffs, with a bay and expanse of sea, and a boat landed on the shore below. Accompanying quoted text: ‘We have observed . . . intricacies of the woodland scenery’ [Ch. 3; EEWN 2, 17-18].

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