Record Number: EHM0002

Related Work: Heart of Mid-Lothian, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Muschat’s Cairn

Keyword(s): Churches & Churchyards - Moonlight - Mountains & Hills - Ruins

Artist: Samuel Bough

Engraver: William Forrest

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 16.5 x 25.8

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 2]

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts nightfall scene, including St Anthony's Chapel (in ruins), among Salisbury Crags, with rough boulders below and Arthur’s Seat in the background; the cairn and two small figures are barely perceptible in the left foreground. Matches #BOR0057, but with different engraver. Accompanying quoted text: ‘Jeanie Deans . . . at length approached the place . . . your burial-place!’ [Ch. 15; EEWN 6, 136-37].

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