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The Regalia of Scotland, engraved by Edward Goodall after Andrew Geddes (1824)

From: Sir Walter Scott, Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland (London: J. and A. Arch, 1826) (facing vol. I, p.iii)

From left to right: the Sceptre of James V, the Scottish Crown, and the Sword of State. Geddes was asked to paint the Regalia for use as a frontispiece to the 9th Part of the Provincial Antiquities in 1824, when it became apparent that an earlier drawing by William Home Lizars, used as the cover illustration for Parts 3-4 (1819-20), contained inaccuracies. The oil painting on which the engraving is based is held at Abbotsford.