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Record Number: BOR0042

Related Work: Rob Roy

Illustration Title/Caption: The Escape of Rob Roy

Keyword(s): Horses - MacGregor, Rob Roy - Rivers & Streams - Soldiers

Artist: Samuel Bough

Engraver: Ch. De Billy

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 8.5 x 13

Date: 1893

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 8, facing p. 240

Location of Copy: NLS, Lit.S.22

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts troop of horse crossing the river Forth, with (apparently) Rob Roy visible as a small figure tied behind one of the riders on the same horse [Ch. 33]. Matches #ERR0005, but with different engraver.

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