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Record Number: EHM0005

Related Work: Heart of Mid-Lothian, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The View from Richmond Hill

Keyword(s): Forests & Woodlands - Rivers & Streams

Artist: Samuel Bough

Engraver: William Richardson

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 17 x 25.5

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 5]

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the Thames and open woodlands as viewed from Richmond Hill, where a carriage stands, outside of which tiny figures of Jeanie Deans and the Duke of Argyle viewing the prospect. Accompanying quoted text: ‘The carriage rolled rapidly . . . at length approached the place . . . unrivalled landscape that it presented’ [Ch. 37; EEWN 6, 329.15-22].

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