Lizars's engraving was published in the 2nd
edition of J.G. Lockhart's Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk (Edinburgh:
William Blackwood, 1819) (vol. II, facing p.351). It was made
after a sketch by J.G. Lockhart (employing the pseudonym Peter
Morris). Francis Russell in his Portraits of Sir Walter
Scott lists this image as a derivation of Raeburn's 1808
portrait of Scott. Corson, however, in unpublished manuscript
notes, is of the view that it derives from Raeburn's 1809
portrait. The ruined wall which features in the 1808 portrait
is here replaced by a woodland scene that may appear closer
to the backdrop of the 1809 version..
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