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Record Number: EBL0004

Related Work: Bride of Lammermoor, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Lucy Ashton at the Fountain

Keyword(s): Ashton, Lucy - Fountains & Wells

Artist: Robert Herdman

Engraver: Robert Anderson

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 25.3 x 17.7

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 4]

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Lucy seated by herself at the fountain, wearing a pale dress and tartan shawl. Accompanying quoted text: ‘She sate upon one of the disjointed stones . . . Nymph of the Fountain’ [Ch. 20; EEWN 7a, 155.25-38].

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