Scope and Contents Two engravings on mount. 1. A portrait of Alexander Henderson, 1583-1646. Henderons was one of the principal members of the committee which drew up the National Covenant (1638) which marks the beginning of the democratic form of government of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. 2. A portrait of Archibald Campbell Marquis of Argyle (1598-1661) created from an original portrait in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Argyll at Inveraray. Campbell was a statesman and adviser to King Charles...

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John Knox, from the original in possession of Lord Torphichen at Calder House. Stipple engraving. 1835. Freeman, Samuel, 1773-1857, Engraver; Blackie & Son, Publisher.

Published in: Robert Chambers, Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen (1835), vol. III.

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Mr. William Braidwood, one of the Pastors of the Original Baptist Church Edinburgh. Stipple engraving. December 1819. Watson, George, 1767-1837, Artist; Freeman, Samuel, 1773-1857, Engraver; New Evangelical Magazine, Publisher.

Publisher statement: Engraved for the New Evang. Magae.

Published in: New Evangelical Magazine, December 1819.

Scope and Contents Likely to be a duplicate copy of a stippled engraving on paper by Samuel Freeman as an illustration to Robert Chambers' "A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen" (1834). Portrait of George Buchanan, 1506 - 1582, (historian and classical scholar; tutor (preceptor) to King James VI, late sixteenth century). Buchanan was a supporter of the Reformation. See Dictionary of National Biography for more information. From the original portrait in the University of Edinburgh. Published by Blackie...

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The Revd. Andrew Thomson A. M. Stipple engraving. 1831. Raeburn, Henry, Sir, 1756-1823, Artist; Freeman, Samuel, 1773-1857, Engraver; Harding, W., Publisher.

Publisher statement: W Harding, Paternoster Row.

Note: With facsimile signature.

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The Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville. Stipple engraving. 1831. Raeburn, Henry, Sir, 1756-1823, Artist; Freeman, Samuel, 1773-1857, Engraver; Fisher, Son & Co., Publisher.

Publisher statement: Fisher, Son & Co. London.

Published in: William Jerdan, National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of the Nineteenth Century (1831).