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Record Number: EAN0005

Related Work: Antiquary, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Kaim of Kinprunes

Keyword(s): Beggars - Lovel, Mr - Ochiltree, Edie - Oldbuck, Jonathan (of Monkbarns)

Artist: John Blake McDonald

Engraver: Thomas Brown

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 17 x 26

Date: 1867

Source Text: Six Engravings in Illustration of The Antiquary for the Members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland ([Edinburgh: the Association], 1867)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 5]

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.RAPFAS.13

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Jonathan Oldbuck, cane in hand, pointing out the Kaim as a Roman archaeological site, with the figure of Ochiltree emerging around a mound of earth behind. Matches #BOR0025, but with different engraver. Accompanying quoted text: ‘Here, then, let us take our stand . . . I mind the bigging o’t’ [Ch. 4; EEWN 3, 30].

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