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Two pencil drawings of Old College by Roger Tarr, c 1972
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Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0159
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Pencil sketch representing the West side of Old College, viewed from an upper window, with the castle in the background. Signed by the artist, Roger Tarr.
Dates:
c 1972
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
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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