A Series of Sketches of the existing localities alluded to in the Waverley Novels. Etched from original drawings by J. Skene
A set of topographical etchings made by James Skene of Rubislaw from his own drawings, published in 1829 for readers of Walter Scott's Waverley Novels who wanted to see the actual Scottish places named in the fiction. The plates are pale, finely hatched landscapes printed sideways on the page — castles and abbey ruins above water, arched bridges, wooded glens and rocky shores — with wide blank margins and engraved captions, useful for faint line textures, silhouetted architecture and skies left almost entirely empty.
