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.
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