Record Number: NTD0003
Related Work: Guy Mannering
Illustration Title/Caption: [Caerlaveroc Castle]
Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses - Ellangowan - Ruins
Artist: Alexander Nasmyth
Engraver: William Home Lizars
Work Type: engraving
Size(cm): 6 x 8
Date: 1821
Source Text: Novels and Tales of The Author of Waverley [12mo issue], 16 vols (Edinburgh: Constable & Co., 1821)
Position in Source Text: vol. 3 (title-page vignette)
Location of Copy: EUL, Corson A.7.a.1821/3
Image File Name: 0007423d.jpg
Notes: Depicts Caerlaverock Castle (ruins), as an equivalent of the old castle of Ellangowan. Illustration caption as given in 'Sixteen Engravings from Real Scenes Supposed to be Described in the Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley' (Edinburgh: Constable & Co., 1821). Vignette also on title-page of 'Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley' (2nd 8vo issue), 12 vols (Edinburgh: Constable & Co., 1822), vol. 3; and in 'The Waverley Album' (London: Charles Heath, [1832]), facing p. 5, titled there 'Ellangowan Castle' (see image); and with artist given as Peter De Wint and engraver as Charles Heath.
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