Record Number: ABB0115

Related Work: [none]

Illustration Title/Caption: The Abbotsford Family

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Dogs - Portraits - Scott, Sir Walter - Utensils

Artist: David Wilkie

Engraver: John Talfourd Smyth

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 9.8 x 12.9

Date: 1847

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Abbotsford edition] (Edinburgh: Cadell, 1842-47)

Position in Source Text: vol. 12 (frontispiece)

Location of Copy: ABD, WS E13, vol. 12

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts Scott and his family, including servants and friends, dressed as country folk. The illustrations list identifies the figures as Sir Walter Scott, Lady Scott, Miss Sophia Scott (afterwards Mrs Lockhart), Miss Anne Scott, Mr Walter Scott (the present Sir Walter Scott, Lieut.-Col. 15th Hussars), Mr Charles Scott, Sir Adam Ferguson, and Tom Purdie. Painted by David Wilkie in 1817. (See the 'Letters of Sir Walter Scott' ed. H.J.C. Grierson, 12 vols (London: Constable, 1932-37), Vol. 10, pp. 168-69).

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