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Walter Scott Image Collection
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0030563
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Corson P.1381
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Title:
To His Grace Henry Scot, Duke of Buccleugh, &c. &c - This View of Melrose Abbey is Inscribed By His Grace's Most-obedient Servants, Thomas Hearne and William Byrne
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To His Grace Henry Scot, Duke of Buccleugh, &c. &c - This View of Melrose Abbey is Inscribed By His Grace's Most-obedient Servants, Thomas Hearne and William Byrne
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Etching of Melrose Abbey by S. Middiman and W. Byrne after T. Hearne
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Etching of Melrose Abbey by S. Middiman and W. Byrne after T. Hearne
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Creator:
Hearne, Thomas
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Hearne, Thomas
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Draftsman
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Middiman, Samuel
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Etcher
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Byrne, William
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Date:
1779
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1779
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Description:
Depicts the ruins of Melrose Abbey, Scottish Borders, and surrounding countryside. Sir Walter Scott coordinated the restoration of Melrose Abbey in 1822. The Abbey features in many of Scott's works, most famously The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805): 'If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, | Go visit it by the pale moonlight [...] | Then view St. David's ruin'd pile; | And, home returning, soothly swear, | Was never scene so sad and fair!' (canto II, stanza I, lines 1-2, 16-18). The religious house of Kennaquhair in The Monastery and The Abbot (both 1820) is also based on the Abbey, and it is described in detail in Scott's 'Essay on Border Antiquities' (1814). The plate was etched by Samuel Middiman and William Byrne after a design by Thomas Hearne.
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Depicts the ruins of Melrose Abbey, Scottish Borders, and surrounding countryside. Sir Walter Scott coordinated the restoration of Melrose Abbey in 1822. The Abbey features in many of Scott's works, most famously The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805): 'If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, | Go visit it by the pale moonlight [...] | Then view St. David's ruin'd pile; | And, home returning, soothly swear, | Was never scene so sad and fair!' (canto II, stanza I, lines 1-2, 16-18). The religious house of Kennaquhair in The Monastery and The Abbot (both 1820) is also based on the Abbey, and it is described in detail in Scott's 'Essay on Border Antiquities' (1814). The plate was etched by Samuel Middiman and William Byrne after a design by Thomas Hearne.
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27.5 x 22.5cm (10 13/16 x 8 7/8")
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Etching
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Location:
TBC/Main Library/Special Collections
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Corson Collection
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Subject Person:
Scott, Walter, Sir
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Melrose Abbey
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Melrose Abbey
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Fiction
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Related Work Title:
Lay of the Last Minstrel, The
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Scott, Walter, Sir
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Monastery, The
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Scott, Walter, Sir
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Abbot, The
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Scott, Walter, Sir
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© The University of Edinburgh
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