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The escape from Argyle Castle [print] / sketched by R.P. Bonington ; printed by Villain.

Accession number
PML 140269.25
Creator
Bonington, Richard Parkes, 1801-1828.
Published
London : Published ... by Colnaghi Son & Co. No. 11, Pall Mall East, Dec. 1st, 1828.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Drawn and lithographed by R.P. Bonington.
One of a series of 13 India proofs of lithographs published in 1829 and entitled: Scotch sketches / drawn on stone by the late R.P. Bonington. London : Colnaghi Son & Co. Printed by Jean-François Villain.
Print is mounted on folio 25 of a bound volume of prints by and after R.P. Bonington (see Bonington album PML 142069).
Description
1 print : lithograph ; vignette image: 137 x 165 mm; sheet 179 x 239 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print illustrates a scene from Sir Walter Scott's A legend of Montrose: the armored and mounted figure of Captain Dalgetty is shown accompanying Ranald MacEagh through the market-place of Inverary, with a gibbet bearing the bodies of three hanged men and the figures of two mourning women prominently shown at right.
Classification
Department