Edinburgh, Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Alexander Henderson and Archibald Campbell, Marquis of Argyle, c 1914
Item — Box Box A: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/9/4
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...
Dates:
c 1914
Portrait of George Buchanan, 1506 - 1582, (historian and tutor to King James VI), c 1914
Item — Box Box A: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/B/8/2
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...
Dates:
c 1914