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Castle Campbell
from an 1850 engraving
Sold by the 6th Duke of Argyll
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62445171@N00/299301389/
The King at Holyrood, engraved by William Greatbach after Sir David Wilkie (1858)
http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/portraits/paintings/images/holyrood.html
Wherever Three or More are Gathered . . .
In August 1822, George IV became the first Hanoverian monarch to visit Scotland. [Sir Walter] Scott played a leading role in
organizing the visit and acted as master of ceremonies. Sir David Wilkie travelled to Edinburgh at the same time as the king with a
view to recording the event. He witnessed his arrival at the Royal Palace of Holyrood and included it in a list of possible pictures. He
should actually have preferred to portray the royal visit to St Giles's Cathedral, but the king insisted that he record the return to the
palace of his ancestors.
Greatbach's engraving is made after Sir David
Wilkie's The Entrance of King George IV [GM
Premier GL 1797-1813; GM Scotland 1806-1820]
at Holyrood, begun in 1823 and completed in
1829. It shows the King, accompanied by
trumpeters, a page, and the Exon of the Yeoman
of Guard, arriving in front of the Palace of
Holyrood. Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton [GM
Scotland 1820-22], the Hereditary Keeper of the
Palace, is offering him the keys of the Palace.
Before the entrance of the building, in full Highland
dress, stands George 6th Duke of Argyll [at
arrow - GM Scotland 1822-24], Hereditary Master
of the Household in Scotland. Behind him three
mounted figures bear the Honours of Scotland: Sir
Alexander Keith*, the Knight Marischal bears the
Crown; Lord Francis Leveson-Gower**,
representing his mother the Countess of
Sutherland, bears the Sceptre; George [Sholto
Douglas] 17th Earl of Morton [grandson of James
Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton - GM Premier GL 1741-42] bears the Sword of State. Standing to the right of the Knight Marischal, as
his Page of Honour, is Sir Walter Scott's*** younger son Charles. Scott himself is the third figure from the left, standing next to John,
4th Earl of Hopetoun [whose Aunt Charlotte married Lord Thomas Erskine - GM Scotland 1749-50], who is wearing the uniform of
Captain-General of the Royal Company of Archers. [see further notes and biographical information below]
George IV also visited General Sir John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun, at Hopetoun House [below].
The state visit was the first time a reigning British sovereign had visited Scotland for 170 years and it was stage-managed by Sir
Walter Scott as an important part of his Romantic Movement in Scotland. Throughout the tour the King wore Highland dress, which
had been banned from 1745 until 1782 following the Jacobite Rebellions: the King’s gesture was viewed as an act of reconciliation
between Scotland and England.
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