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Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet)

 Person

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Dates

  • Existence: 1771 - 1832

Biography

For a complete biography of Sir Walter Scott, please see The Walter Scott Digital Archive.

Barnaby, Paul, The Walter Scott Digital Archive (Last updated: 25/06/2019) <http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/index.html> [Accessed on 25 September 2023]

Found in 200 Collections and/or Records:

The Abbotsford family, 1837

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Identifier: Coll-10/3/57
Scope and Contents The Abbotsford family. Line engraving. 1837. Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841, Artist; Smyth, John Talfourd, Engraver; Cadell, Robert, 1788-1849, Publisher.Publisher statement: R. Cadell, Edinburgh.Published in: Walter Scott, Waverley Novels (Abbotsford Edition), vol. XII (1847), frontispiece.Note: Subjects (L-R): Lady Charlotte Scott; daughters Anne and Sophia; youngest son Charles; Sir Adam Ferguson. To rear: shepherd Thomas Scott; Scott's eldest son Walter....
Dates: 1837
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 3. Peebles, Selkirk, Roxburgh, Berwick

The Author of Waverley, 1831

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Identifier: Coll-10/3/53
Scope and Contents

The Author of Waverley. Coloured lithograph. 1831. Crombie, Benjamin W. (Benjamin William), 1803-1847, Artist, Lithographer; Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, Publisher.

Dates: 1831
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 3. Peebles, Selkirk, Roxburgh, Berwick

The Author of Waverley, in his Study, 1828

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Identifier: Coll-10/3/42
Scope and Contents

The Author of Waverley, in his Study. Line engraving. 1828. Allan, William, 1782-1850, Artist; Goodall, Edward, 1795-1870, Engraver; Sharpe, John, 1777-1860, .

Published in: Allan Cunningham, The Anniversary, or Poetry and Prose for MDCCCXXIX (1828).

Dates: 1828
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 3. Peebles, Selkirk, Roxburgh, Berwick

Transcript of an extract from The Lay of the Last Minstrel, with portrait of Sir Walter Scott, early nineteenth century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2167/1/7
Scope and Contents

Transcript of an extract from The Lay of the Last Minstrel, with an engraving of Sir Walter Scott pasted above.


Extract spans Canto IV, verse XXXII, lines 20-28.


Engraving initially published by Thomas Phillips, 1822.

Dates: early nineteenth century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of papers of, and relating to Sir Walter Scott / Items relating to Sir Walter Scott from a collection made by Miss Marianne Talbot

[Turn-again. Sir Walter Scott's favourite seat in the woods of Abbotsford, looking down the Vale of Melrose], 1844

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Identifier: Coll-10/3/47
Scope and Contents [Turn-again. Sir Walter Scott's favourite seat in the woods of Abbotsford, looking down the Vale of Melrose]. Wood engraving. 1844. Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867, Artist; Dalziel, George, 1815-1902, Engraver; Cadell, Robert, 1788-1849, Publisher.Published in: Walter Scott, Waverley Novels (Abbotsford Edition), vol. 5 (1844), The Monastery, p.192.Note: Pencil annotation: 'Turn-again. Sir Walter Scott's favourite seat in the woods of Abbotsford, looking down the Vale of...
Dates: 1844
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 3. Peebles, Selkirk, Roxburgh, Berwick

Two autograph letters signed from Sir Walter Scott, one to J.G.Lockhart, the other one with no recipient, nd

 Item — Box CLX-A-289
Identifier: Coll-1147/00-09
Scope and Contents

Two autograph letters signed from Sir Walter Scott, one to J. G. Lockhart, 1 February, no year; other no recipient, no date.

Dates: nd
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Letters of, and other papers relating to, Sir Walter Scott

Two letters of Sir Walter Scott, one to Charles Robison, one to Lord Stewart, 1809 and 1832

 Item — Box CLX-A-131
Identifier: Coll-1147/97-18
Scope and Contents

Two letters of Sir Walter Scott, one to Charles Robison, one to Lord Stewart

Dates: 1809 and 1832
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Letters of, and other papers relating to, Sir Walter Scott

Visual materials relating to the life and work of Sir Walter Scott, 18th-20th century

 Series
Identifier: Coll-1022/CCWS/ILL
Scope and Contents This series contains: Original artworks inspired by the novels and poems of Sir Walter Scott Printed illustrations relating to the life and works of Sir Walter Scott Postcards and photographs of places associated with Sir Walter Scott Visual materials relating to plays and films inspired by the life and works of Sir Walter Scott Visual...
Dates: 18th-20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Corson Collection / Corson Collection of Sir Walter Scott materials

[Walter Scott Naples 16 April 1832], 1832

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Identifier: Coll-10/3/59
Scope and Contents

[Walter Scott Naples 16 April 1832]. Lithograph. 1832. Morani, Vincenzo, 1809-1870, Artist; Maguire & Co., Printer .

Note: Includes facsimile of Scott's handwriting.

Dates: 1832
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 3. Peebles, Selkirk, Roxburgh, Berwick

Watercolour painting depicting a scene from Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake, c 1815

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Identifier: Coll-1848/19-0050
Scope and Contents This is a watercolour painting of a scene from Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake, by Thomas Stothard, signed. The scene depicts Ellen Douglas and James Fitz-James (i.e. King James V of Scotland in disguise) on a rocky shore (of Loch Katrine), with him in a skiff, holding a pole. This is either the moment of going ashore, in Canto I of Scott's poem, or the moment in Canto II, when he departs the next day. The hunting horn (small) with which he...
Dates: c 1815
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection