Engraving of a bust of Sir Walter Scott aged around fifty. Scott first sat for the original plaster bust by Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey in spring 1820. This engraving is from the marble replica (known as the 'Abbotsford Bust') that Chantrey made for Scott in 1821. It was first published in 1839 in vol. VII of J.G. Lockhart's Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., 2nd edn (Edinburgh: Cadell, 1839).
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Engraving of a bust of Sir Walter Scott aged around fifty. Scott first sat for the original plaster bust by Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey in spring 1820. This engraving is from the marble replica (known as the 'Abbotsford Bust') that Chantrey made for Scott in 1821. It was first published in 1839 in vol. VII of J.G. Lockhart's Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., 2nd edn (Edinburgh: Cadell, 1839).
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