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Record Number: EAN0004

Related Work: Antiquary, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Interview between Miss Wardour and Edie Ochiltree

Keyword(s): Beggars - Ochiltree, Edie - Wardour, Isabella

Artist: William MacTaggart

Engraver: John Le Conte

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 25.3 x 18.5

Date: 1867

Source Text: Six Engravings in Illustration of The Antiquary for the Members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland ([Edinburgh: the Association], 1867)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 4]

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.RAPFAS.13

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Edie Ochiltree sitting on a bench in the courtyard at Monkbarns, with Isabella Wardour leaning out of the parlour window to talk with him. Matches #BOR0028, but with different engraver. Accompanying quoted text: ‘The young lady . . . it would be a public loss’ [Ch. 12; EEWN 3, 91-93].

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