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Record Number: ELM0004

Related Work: Legend of Montrose, A

Illustration Title/Caption: Dalgetty and Ranald’s Encounter with the Clergyman in the Chapel at Inverary

Keyword(s): Churches & Churchyards - Clergy - Dalgetty, Dugald - MacEagh, Ranald - Religion - Soldiers

Artist: George Hay

Engraver: Thomas Brown

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 18.5 x 25.5

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 4]

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

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Dalgetty (helmet in hand) in the Marquis of Argyle’s chapel at Inverary, bowing before the clergyman, with Ranald MacEagh looking on from a doorway. Matches #BOR0067, but with different engraver. Accompanying quoted text: 'But although the congregation . . . dined in the Castle of Ardenvohr!' [Ch. 14; EEWN 7b, 111.9-27]. Exhibited at Royal Scottish Academy, no. 338, 1878.

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