BIB_ID
126918
Accession number
MA 666.7
Creator
Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829.
Display Date
1802 Aug. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.6 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of twelve letters from the Earl of Buchan to Lady Anne Hamilton. Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
With a penciled "Outline of the Portrait of / Margaret Tudor Queen of Scots / Mother of Margaret Co. of Lenox / which is in the Picture formerly / Lord Scarborough's now Lord Bute's. / Whether the other portrait in this / piece be the Queen's 2'd husband / the Earl of Angus or not does not / appear to be established."
With a penciled "Outline of the Portrait of / Margaret Tudor Queen of Scots / Mother of Margaret Co. of Lenox / which is in the Picture formerly / Lord Scarborough's now Lord Bute's. / Whether the other portrait in this / piece be the Queen's 2'd husband / the Earl of Angus or not does not / appear to be established."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1910.
Summary
Concerning a box and portrait of Mary Queen of Scots that hung at Alloa before the house "burnt to the ground with almost all the valuable HeirLooms of the family..."
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