Record Number: ERR0001

Related Work: Rob Roy

Illustration Title/Caption: Cattle Lifting

Keyword(s): Cattle - Dogs - Farmers & Peasants - Pirates & Robbers

Artist: Gourlay Steell

Engraver: James Stephenson

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 17 x 26

Date: 1868

Source Text: Six Engravings in Illustration of Rob Roy for the Members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland ([Edinburgh: the Association], 1868)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 1]

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.RAPFAS.11

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts herd of long-horned cattle in wild terrain, with two figures to the right of the picture, one with a shepherd’s crook and dog. Accompanying quoted text: ‘About noon, Rob commanded . . . to drive them over the hill’ [Magnum Opus edition, Introduction, vol. 7, lxxiii-lxxiv].

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