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Record Number: ELM0003

Related Work: Legend of Montrose, A

Illustration Title/Caption: Annot Lyle, Lord Menteith, and Allan M‘Aulay

Keyword(s): Harps - Highlands - Lyle, Annot - McAulay, Allan - Menteith, Earl of - Music

Artist: William Ewart Lockhart

Engraver: Thomas Brown

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 25.5 x 18.2

Date: 1877

Source Text: Six Engravings in Illustration of A Legend of Montrose for the Members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland ([Edinburgh: the Association], 1877)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 3]

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.RAPFAS.5

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Allan McAulay (in kilt) seated with hand on brow, and listening to Annot Lyle singing to her harp, with Lord Menteith behind, and a large tapestry as background. Matches #BOR0066, but with different engraver. Accompanying quoted text: 'All accompanied their hospitable landlord . . . passed from my spirit' [Ch. 5; EEWN 7b, 48-50]. Exhibited Royal Scottish Academy, no. 194, 1877.

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