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Record Number: DRY0022

Related Work: Antiquary, The

Illustration Title/Caption: ‘It’s No Fish Ye’re Buying: It’s Men’s Lives’

Keyword(s): Cottages - Fishing - Lovel, Mr - Mucklebackit, Maggie - Oldbuck, Jonathan (of Monkbarns)

Artist: Paul Hardy

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 7.5 x 7

Date: 1893

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Dryburgh Edition], 25 vols (London & Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1892-94)

Position in Source Text: vol. 3 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Jonathan Oldbuck bargaining over the price of fish with Maggie Mucklebackit, who stands arms against her sides at the door of her cottage [Ch. 11]. Title/caption from List of Illustrations.

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