Record Number: EBL0003
Related Work: Bride of Lammermoor, The
Illustration Title/Caption: Caleb Balderstone’s Ruse
Keyword(s): Attendants & Servants - Balderstone, Caleb - Mysie - Utensils
Artist: George Hay
Engraver: Robert Anderson
Work Type: steel engraving
Size(cm): 17.5 x 24.3
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 3]
Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.RAPFAS.15
Image File Name: No image available for this record.
Notes: Depicts Caleb deliberately knocking down domestic utensils from a shelf in the kitchen at Wolf’s Crag, with Mysie looking on in consternation. Matches #BOR0072, but with different engraver. Accompanying quoted text: ‘The thunderbolt, which had stunned . . . wud wi’ the thunner!’ [Ch. 11; EEWN 7a, 94-95]. Exhibited at Royal Scottish Academy, no. 71, 1876.
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