Record Number: EHM0001

Related Work: Heart of Mid-Lothian, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Laird of Dumbiedykes in Jeanie’s Cottage

Keyword(s): Cottages - Courtship - Deans, Jeanie - Dumbiedikes, Laird of - Handicraft

Artist: Hugh Cameron

Engraver: Robert Anderson

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 17.8 x 24.8

Date: 1873

Source Text: Six Engravings in Illustration of The Heart of Midlothian for the Members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland ([Edinburgh: the Association], 1873)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 1]

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.RAPFAS.19

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts Dumbiedikes standing pipe in hand awkwardly watching Jeanie as she attends to domestic work (apparently tightening the cords on a case) in preparation for the removal from their original family cottage. Matches #BOR0056, but with different engraver. Accompanying quoted text: ‘When Davie Deans intimated . . . heard to ejaculate, "Hegh, sirs!' [Ch. 9; EEWN 6, 82.11-17].

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