Notes on the art treasures at Penicuik House Midlothian /
Gray, John Miller,1850-1894.
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose,Earl of,1847-1929,former owner.StEdNL
Barnbougle Castle.Library,former owner.StEdNL
[Edinburgh : s.n.],
1889
"Reprinted, with large additions from 'The Scottish Leader'"--T. p.
Fifty copies printed for private circulation.
Armorial bookplate of the 5th Earl of Rosebery on the front pastedown. Manscript inscription on the front of the original wrapper "To The Right Hon: The Earl of Rosebery with its Author's Compts. JMG". The first original flyleaf is stamped "Barnbougle Castle Catalogue" at the top. Manuscript marginalia on page 16 "The "Account of my Life" by the 2nd Bart. gives 1654 as the date when the Penicuik lands were acquired: & this is confirmed by a certified extract from the Sacines in possn. of J.J. Wilson of Penecuik. JMG". The final page of text (page 69) has two manuscript inscriptions in the margins "More probably Sir George, 4th Bart., & his wife Dorothea Clerk-Maxwell. The date on pictures, 1739, would suit either bart. JMG" and "Two portraits by him signed & dated respectively 174-, & 1744 are in the Fossn of Lord Stair, at Barganny. For references to work executed by Mosman in Aberdeen, (1731, 1741, &c), see Bullock's "Life of Jamesone". JMG".
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