BIB_ID
310914
Accession number
MA 427.81
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
"Wednesday" [1820 July 26].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Contemporary annotation on p. 1 dates the letter to August 1820. Grierson follows the annotation in dating this letter, but the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (no. 1731) dates it to 26 July 1820.
Part of a large collection of letters from Sir Walter Scott to Lady Anne Jane Hamilton, Marchioness of Abercorn. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson and the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence.
The portrait referenced in the footnote was painted by John Watson, afterwards Sir John Watson Gordon, in 1820. It is the earliest of several portraits of Scott by this artist and was painted for Lady Abercorn.--Cf. Grierson, p. 217, n. 1.
Part of a large collection of letters from Sir Walter Scott to Lady Anne Jane Hamilton, Marchioness of Abercorn. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Recipient inferred from contents of the letter and identified in Grierson and the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence.
The portrait referenced in the footnote was painted by John Watson, afterwards Sir John Watson Gordon, in 1820. It is the earliest of several portraits of Scott by this artist and was painted for Lady Abercorn.--Cf. Grierson, p. 217, n. 1.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in 1909.
Summary
Sending (not present) likenesses of Lord Somerville and the Duke of Buccleuch as requested; lamenting their deaths. With a postscript noting that the picture (his portrait) has been sent to her by a Leith packet.
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