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Sir Walter Scott, seated, writing at a Table

Whiteley (2000) 1133

Paper, washed with black ink, cut out and gummed down on white wove paper, with added work on the backing paper in graphite and brown wash.  Sheet: 319 x 236 mm

Inscribed in black ink at lower left: Aug. Edouart fecit, 1831. / taken at Abbotsford Verso: Inscribed in black ink: Sir Walter Scott Bar.t, with a facsimile of Scott's signature, on a slip of paper.

Collector's Mark: Hope (L. 1266b) lower left

The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Presented by Revd F.W. Hope, 1850.; 

WA1924.9.7