3-034-549 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Scott Centenary: exhibition of portraits and relics at Edinburgh, 1871. View inside the '...Loan Exhibition of pictures, sculptures, manuscripts, and various relics, having some interest associated with [Sir Walter] Scott's life and works, which has been opened in the galleries of the Royal Scottish Academy...In the North Room, where the water-colour drawings are usually placed at the annual exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy, there are several statues and busts of Scott, and the original model, by the architect, Mr. George Meikle Kemp, of the Scott Monument at Edinburgh. A copy, in bronze, of Chantrey's marble bust...reproduces, perhaps, the best likeness of Scott ever made...The Exhibition contains, in this sculpture department, another work of great merit, the cast for Mr. Steell's seated statue of Scott...which is enshrined in the Edinburgh Monument. There is a cast of Scott's face and head, moulded after his death. The walls of the South Room are adorned with thirty portraits of Scott, by different painters, taken at various periods of his life, from his boyhood to 1831, the year before his death'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.