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Walter Scott Image Collection
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Author of 'The Excursion'
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Facsimile reproduction of a print portrait of William Wordsworth by Daniel Maclise
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Facsimile reproduction of a print portrait of William Wordsworth by Daniel Maclise
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Maclise, Daniel
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Date:
1883
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Facsimile of sketch of English poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850), with facsimile of signature. Sir Walter Scott was a friend and admirer of Wordsworth. They first met when Scott accompanied the poet and his sister on a tour of the Border Country in September 1803. Scott visited the Wordsworths at Grasmere in August 1805 and climbed Helvellyn with Wordsworth and Sir Humphry Davey. A further visit to Grasmere took place in August 1825. Finally, the Wordsworths visited Abbotsford in 1831, leading Wordsworth to compose 'On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples'. Writing of Wordsworth, Scott declared that he did not know 'a man more to be venerated for uprightness of heart and loftiness of genius' (letter to Allan Cunningham, 7 January 1821). His conversation 'as much distinguished by manly sense and candour as by talent and principle, was like a fountain in the desert' (letter to Sir George Beaumont, 28 August 1825). Scott, who particularly admired Wordsworth's sonnets, regretted that his poetry was not as popular as it deserved to be as it was 'too subtle and metaphysical in the idea, & too blunt in the expression' (letter to Allan Cunningham, 14 October 1828). This facsimile reproduction is of one of a series of portraits originally published in Fraser's Magazine, 1830-1838, under the title 'A Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters'.
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Facsimile of sketch of English poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850), with facsimile of signature. Sir Walter Scott was a friend and admirer of Wordsworth. They first met when Scott accompanied the poet and his sister on a tour of the Border Country in September 1803. Scott visited the Wordsworths at Grasmere in August 1805 and climbed Helvellyn with Wordsworth and Sir Humphry Davey. A further visit to Grasmere took place in August 1825. Finally, the Wordsworths visited Abbotsford in 1831, leading Wordsworth to compose 'On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples'. Writing of Wordsworth, Scott declared that he did not know 'a man more to be venerated for uprightness of heart and loftiness of genius' (letter to Allan Cunningham, 7 January 1821). His conversation 'as much distinguished by manly sense and candour as by talent and principle, was like a fountain in the desert' (letter to Sir George Beaumont, 28 August 1825). Scott, who particularly admired Wordsworth's sonnets, regretted that his poetry was not as popular as it deserved to be as it was 'too subtle and metaphysical in the idea, & too blunt in the expression' (letter to Allan Cunningham, 14 October 1828). This facsimile reproduction is of one of a series of portraits originally published in Fraser's Magazine, 1830-1838, under the title 'A Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters'.
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12.4 x 18.6cm (4 7/8 x 7 5/16")
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TBC/Main Library/Special Collections
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Corson Collection
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Maclise, D. The Maclise Portrait Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters, ed. W. Bates. London: Chatto and Windus, 1883 (facing p. 78)
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Maclise, D. The Maclise Portrait Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters, ed. W. Bates. London: Chatto and Windus, 1883 (facing p. 78)
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Scott, Walter, Sir
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Wordsworth, William
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Wordsworth, William
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Portraits
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© The University of Edinburgh
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