Sir Walter Scott in his Study at Castle Street, engraved by R.C. Bell after Sir John Watson Gordon

Sir Walter Scott in his Study at Castle Street, engraved by Robert Charles Bell after Sir John Watson Gordon

Frontispiece to: Portrait of Sir Walter Scott: And Five Engravings in Illustration of 'The Pirate' ([Edinburgh: Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland], 1871)

Bell's engraving is made from an undated posthumous portrait of Scott painted by Sir John Watson Gordon in the 1840s or 1850s.