Scottish literature
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Watercolour painting depicting a scene from Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake, c 1815
Item
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