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Record Number: NTD0028

Related Work: Fortunes of Nigel, The

Illustration Title/Caption: [Camlet Moat]

Keyword(s): Forests & Woodlands - Murder & Murderers - Pirates & Robbers

Artist: Alexander Nasmyth

Engraver: W. Archibald

Work Type: engraving

Size(cm): 6.5 x 7.5

Date: 1824

Source Text: Novels and Romances of the Author of Waverley [12mo issue], 9 vols (Edinburgh: Constable & Co., 1824)

Position in Source Text: vol. 4 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: NLS, NG. 1172.i

Image File Name: 0007415d.jpg


Notes: Depicts man and (seated) woman in forest glade, with page behind holding horse, and three figures behind hedge in the foreground, one of whom points a gun towards the man [Compare Ch. 36; EEWN 13, 392-93]. Illustration title from 'The Waverley Album' (London: Charles Heath, [1832]), where same image appears facing p. 44, with Alexander Nasmyth as artist and Edward Finden as engraver (see image). Also appears in 'Novels and Romances of the Author of Waverley' [8vo issue], 7 vols (Edinburgh: Constable & Co., 1824), vol. 4.

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