print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.7232
- Description
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Portrait of Walter Scott, after Gordon; three-quarters length seated under a tree, hands folded and resting on his stick, with a dog beside him on the right.
Mixed media
- Production date
- 1831
- Dimensions
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Height: 103 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 81 millimetres (trimmed)
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- Curator's comments
- Pasted to the verso of an album sheet on which is also pasted an impression of 'The Moss Rose' by Quilley (2010,7081.7230). The Horsburgh print was used as a frontispiece to Walter Scott's Works, vol. 33, published 1831. This album sheet is annotated in ink below the portrait with two verses of a poem by Thomas Gent: 'Who in this Wonder does not have ... That he should paint thee, who, can paint the best!'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.7232