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Record Number: EBL0002

Related Work: Bride of Lammermoor, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Wolf's Crag

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses - Cliffs - Seascapes - Wolf's Crag

Artist: Samuel Bough

Engraver: William Forrest

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 16.4 x 27.3

Date: 1875

Source Text: Six Engravings in Illustration of The Bride of Lammermoor for the Members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland ([Edinburgh: the Association], 1875)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 2]

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.RAPFAS.15

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Wolf’s Crag in a storm, perched on cliffs with the sea beneath, and with three riders on a path leading to it. Matches #BOR0071, but with different engraver. Accompanying quoted text: ‘At this moment the cloud . . . red and dazzling light’ [Ch. 9; EEWN 7a, 84.16-25].

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