ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides historical context and analysis for the first illustrations of the Waverley novels in Scotland. It illustrates the Waverley novels provide the point at which painting and the contemporary novel first engaged to create a new visual discourse for the expression of the historical moment in painting, as exemplified in Allan's Murder of Archbishop Sharpe on Magus Moore, 1679. It has sought to reposition Constable, Cadell, Scott, and Edinburgh within the context of an important period of publishing history in the early nineteenth century. Scott's engagement with various forms of illustrated literature, from the very beginning of his literary career in 1803, to his last publication, the Magnum Opus, provides firm evidence of his professional and artistic interests in the visual supplement to the written word. Allan and Alexander Nasmyth, Scott's hand-picked illustrators, worked with the author to create visual templates that influenced a generation of illustrators and history painters.
