Editing Walter Scott (section)

===The other arts===
{{Further|Opera in Scotland#Operas inspired by Walter Scott}}
Although Scott's own appreciation of music was basic, to say the least, he had a considerable influence on composers. Some 90 operas based to some extent on his poems and novels have been traced, the most celebrated being [[Gioachino Rossini|Rossini]]'s ''[[La donna del lago]]'' (1819, based on ''[[The Lady of the Lake]]'') and [[Gaetano Donizetti|Donizetti]]'s ''[[Lucia di Lammermoor]]'' (1835, based on ''[[The Bride of Lammermoor]]'').<ref>Mitchell, Jerome (1977) ''Walter Scott Operas''. University, Alabama.</ref><ref>Mitchell, Jerome (1996) ''More Scott Operas''. Lanham, Maryland.</ref> Others include Donizetti's 1829 opera ''[[Il castello di Kenilworth]]'' based on ''[[Kenilworth (novel)|Kenilworth]]'', [[Georges Bizet]]'s [[La jolie fille de Perth]] (1867, based on ''[[The Fair Maid of Perth]]''), and [[Arthur Sullivan]]'s ''[[Ivanhoe (opera)|Ivanhoe]]'' (1891).

Many of Scott's songs were set to music by composers throughout the 19th century.<ref>Bibliography in Yonge, C. D. (1888) ''Life of Sir Walter Scott''. London. pp. xxxiv‒xxxviii.</ref> Seven from ''The Lady of the Lake'' were set in German translations by [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]], one of them being '[[Ellens dritter Gesang]]' popularly known as 'Schubert's ''Ave Maria'''. Three lyrics, also in translation, appear from [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]] in his ''[[Twenty-Five Scottish Songs (Beethoven)|Twenty-Five Scottish Songs]]'', Op. 108. Other notable musical responses include three overtures: ''Waverley'' (1828) and ''Rob Roy'' (1831) by [[Hector Berlioz|Berlioz]], and ''The Land of the Mountain and the Flood'' (1887, alluding to ''The Lay of the Last Minstrel'') by [[Hamish MacCunn]]. "Hail to the Chief" from "The Lady of the Lake" was set to music around 1812 by the songwriter James Sanderson ({{circa|1769}} – {{circa|1841}}). See the Wikipedia article "Hail to the Chief."

The Waverley Novels are full of eminently paintable scenes and many 19th-century artists responded to them. Among the outstanding paintings of Scott subjects are: [[Richard Parkes Bonington]]'s ''Amy Robsart and the Earl of Leicester'' (''c.'' 1827) from ''[[Kenilworth]]'' in the [[Ashmolean Museum]], Oxford;<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://collections.ashmolean.org/collection/search/per_page/25/offset/0/sort_by/date/object/46921 |title=Ashmolean Museum |access-date=8 June 2020}}</ref> [[Eugène Delacroix|Delacroix]]'s ''L'Enlèvement de Rebecca'' (1846) from ''[[Ivanhoe]]'' in the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], New York;<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438814?searchField=ArtistCulture&amp;sortBy=Relevance&amp;when=A.D.+1800-1900&amp;ft=eugene+delacroix&amp;offset=0&amp;rpp=20&amp;pos=2 |title=Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=8 June 2020}}</ref> and [[John Everett Millais|Millais]]'s ''[[The Bride of Lammermoor]]'' (1878) in Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-bride-of-lammermoor-188794 |title=Bristol Museum and Art Gallery |access-date=8 June 2020}}</ref>

Walter Scott features as a character in [[Sara Sheridan]]'s novel ''The Fair Botanists'' (2021).<ref>Sheridan, Sara (2021), ''The Fair Botanists'', [[Hodder & Stoughton]], {{ISBN|9781529336207}}</ref>