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Sketches by Alison Douglas Tod, mid 20th century
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Identifier: Coll-2029/2/6
Scope and Contents
This file contains sketches of fairies, elves, children, and animals from Alison Tod's stories. These sketches consist of pencil drawings on parchment paper and some have adjustment notes.
Dates:
mid 20th century
Watercolour painting depicting a scene from Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake, c 1815
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Identifier: Coll-1848/19-0050
Scope and Contents
This is a watercolour painting of a scene from Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake, by Thomas Stothard, signed. The scene depicts Ellen Douglas and James Fitz-James (i.e. King James V of Scotland in disguise) on a rocky shore (of Loch Katrine), with him in a skiff, holding a pole. This is either the moment of going ashore, in Canto I of Scott's poem, or the moment in Canto II, when he departs the next day. The hunting horn (small) with which he...
Dates:
c 1815