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Title
Walter Scott engraving
Identifier
ABDUA:31483
Description
Black and white engraving of Sir Walter Scott in his study with two dogs, writing down his last book. There is a portrait hanging on the wall.
Caption - "Scott is depicted dictating his last novel in his study at Abbotsford. This is a fanciful portrait, an conflation of various periods in the history of Scott and his household. Born in Edinburgh, Francis Grant (1803-78) was a highly successful portrait and animal painter elected President of the RA in 1866. Thomas Hodgetts (fl.1801-46) was a successful London based engraver who contributed plates to J.M.W. Turner's 'Liber Studiorum'."Author: Morrison,John Date: 2002 Purpose: HA3541
Caption - "Scott is depicted dictating his last novel in his study at Abbotsford. This is a fanciful portrait, an conflation of various periods in the history of Scott and his household. Born in Edinburgh, Francis Grant (1803-78) was a highly successful portrait and animal painter elected President of the RA in 1866. Thomas Hodgetts (fl.1801-46) was a successful London based engraver who contributed plates to J.M.W. Turner's 'Liber Studiorum'."Author: Morrison,John Date: 2002 Purpose: HA3541
Creator
Hodgetts, Thomas (engraver) and Grant, F (painter)