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A late scene at Barnet
Published
[London] : [publisher not specified], [1771]
etching with engraving
image: 102 x 168 mm; sheet: 118 x 186 mm
Peel 2610
Notes
Title from item.
Print from the London Magazine, October 1771, page 482 (facing), illustrating an account of the affair of Lady Mary Scott (née Hay), the young wife of Major-General John Scott of Balcomie, and her lover, Captain James Sutherland of Duffus; the pair evidently fled together from Balcomie in October of 1771 and were subsequently apprehended at Barnet by her husband and his men, where Sutherland was said to have made good his escape through a bedroom window.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Print from the London Magazine, October 1771, page 482 (facing), illustrating an account of the affair of Lady Mary Scott (née Hay), the young wife of Major-General John Scott of Balcomie, and her lover, Captain James Sutherland of Duffus; the pair evidently fled together from Balcomie in October of 1771 and were subsequently apprehended at Barnet by her husband and his men, where Sutherland was said to have made good his escape through a bedroom window.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Social satire: a party (led by Major-General John Scott of Balcomie) bursts into a bedroom where a half-naked lover (Captain James Sutherland) jumps out of a window leaving his mistress (Lady Mary Scott) behind in a four-poster bed.
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
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