Sir Walter Scott and his friends Size:S: 36 x 28cm Mike Maxfield

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The drawing-room

Britannia in the guise of a plump mother hen is shown sitting on her clutch of eggs

A woman in white with long dark hair holds a flower

Sir Walter Scott and his friends Size:S: 36 x 28cm Mike MaxfieldSir Walter Scott and his friends, c1849. Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott (1771 1832) and his literary friends at Abbotsford: seated; Thomas Thomson, James Ballantyne, Archibald Constable, Thomas Campbell, Tom Moore, Sir Adam Fergusson, Francis Jeffrey, William Wordsworth, John Gibson Lockhart, George Crabbe, Henry Mackenzie, Scott, and (on footstool) James Hogg. Standing: Sir Humphrey Davy, Sir David Wilkie, Sir William Allan, Professor John Wilson.