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Record Number: BOR0020

Related Work: Guy Mannering

Illustration Title/Caption: The Solway Firth

Keyword(s): Boats - Seascapes

Artist: Francis Sylvester Walker

Engraver: Francis Sylvester Walker

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 13.5 x 9.2

Date: 1892

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Border Edition], ed. Andrew Lang, 48 vols (London: John C. Nimmo, 1892-94)

Position in Source Text: vol. 4, facing p. 128

Location of Copy: NLS, Lit.S.22

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts small boat with single sail and three occupants struggling through a heavy sea, matching Henry Bertram’s passage on the Solway Firth [Ch. 40].

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