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Walter Scott Image Collection
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0030554
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Corson P.1339
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Title:
Melrose Abbey
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Melrose Abbey
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Hand-coloured aquatint of Melrose Abbey by Merigot after J. Stoddart
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Hand-coloured aquatint of Melrose Abbey by Merigot after J. Stoddart
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Creator:
Stoddart, John
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Stoddart, John
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Merigot, J.
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Engraver
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Date:
1801
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Description:
Depicts the ruins of Melrose Abbey, Scottish Borders, and churchyard. Sir Walter Scott coordinated the restoration of Melrose Abbey in 1822. The Abbey features in many of Scott's works, most famously The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805): 'If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, | Go visit it by the pale moonlight [...] | Then view St. David's ruin'd pile; | And, home returning, soothly swear, | Was never scene so sad and fair!' (canto II, stanza I, lines 1-2, 16-18). The religious house of Kennaquhair in The Monastery and The Abbot (both 1820) is also based on the Abbey, and it is described in detail in Scott's 'Essay on Border Antiquities' (1814).
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Depicts the ruins of Melrose Abbey, Scottish Borders, and churchyard. Sir Walter Scott coordinated the restoration of Melrose Abbey in 1822. The Abbey features in many of Scott's works, most famously The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805): 'If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, | Go visit it by the pale moonlight [...] | Then view St. David's ruin'd pile; | And, home returning, soothly swear, | Was never scene so sad and fair!' (canto II, stanza I, lines 1-2, 16-18). The religious house of Kennaquhair in The Monastery and The Abbot (both 1820) is also based on the Abbey, and it is described in detail in Scott's 'Essay on Border Antiquities' (1814).
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28.9 x 20.9cm (11 3/8 x 8 1/4")
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28.9 x 20.9cm (11 3/8 x 8 1/4")
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Paper
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Location:
TBC/Main Library/Special Collections
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Corson Collection
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Subject Person:
Scott, Walter, Sir
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Melrose Abbey
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Fiction
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Poetry
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Settings
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Related Work Title:
Lay of the Last Minstrel, The
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Scott, Walter, Sir
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Monastery, The
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Scott, Walter, Sir
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Abbot, The
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Scott, Walter, Sir
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Essay on Border Antiquities
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Scott, Walter, Sir
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23/04/2012 17:01:00
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Repro Rights Statement:
© The University of Edinburgh
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© The University of Edinburgh
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