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Record Number: EBL0005

Related Work: Bride of Lammermoor, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Lady Ashton’s Interview with her Husband relative to Ravenswood’s quitting the Mansion

Keyword(s): Ashton, Lady - Ashton, Sir William

Artist: William Brassey Hole

Engraver: John Le Conte

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 19.2 x 23.7

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 5]

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Sir William seated at a table attempting to reason with Lady Ashton, who stands in a haughty manner with a letter in her hand. Accompanying quoted text: ‘Think what you are doing . . . answered the lady contemptuously’ [Ch. 22; EEWN 7a, 183.36-39].

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