Scott's Poetical Works
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1841 (engraved)
1841 (engraved)
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Line engraving on steel, printed on paper, depicting the home of Sir Walter Scott in Scotland
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Materials and techniques | Line engraving |
Brief description | Line engraving on steel by W. Miller depicting Abbotsford, after a drawing by J. M. W. Turner for the Library edition of 'Scott's Poetical Works'. Great Britain, 1841. |
Physical description | Line engraving on steel, printed on paper, depicting the home of Sir Walter Scott in Scotland |
Credit line | Bequeathed by Horace Mummery |
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Bibliographic reference | Abbotsford is the exclusive creation of Walter Scott. His ‘Conundrum Castle’ was where Scotland’s greatest son created a notion of Scotland that was more romantic perhaps, but also higher, more honourable, more noble, than it had been in the past, and in consequence raised Scotland’s reputation in the world.
The Waverley Novels, as Scott’s 26 novels came to be called, were the world’s first real historical novels and the world’s first best-sellers. They paved the way for the great popular novels of the Victorian age, influenced Pushkin and Tolstoy as well as George Eliot and Dickens, and earned him the money to buy land, to plant trees and to build Abbotsford. |
Other number | R569 - Rawlinson number (Mummery Bequest) |
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Accession number | E.4533-1946 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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