Record Number: BOR0057

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: Benjamin-Louis-Auguste Damman

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 9.3 x 14.4

Date: 1893

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

Position in Source Text: vol. 11, facing p. 224

Location of Copy: NLS, Lit.S.22

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 [Ch. 15]. Matches #EHM0002, but with different engraver.

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