A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries. (With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.) (1896) (14596215628)

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Title: A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries. (With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Seton, George, 1822-1908
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Publisher: Edinburgh : T. & A. Constable
Contributing Library: National Library of Scotland
Digitizing Sponsor: National Library of Scotland



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sehold (photographed several years ago by theArundel Society), is in the possession of the representatives ofthe last Lord Somerville. But by far the most interestingrepresentation of Mary Stuarts truest friend is in the well-known group by Sir Antonio More, badly engraved by Pinkerton,of which the original is also in the possession of the Somervillefamily; while at least four excellent copies are to be found atDuns Castle, Yester, Dunrobin, and Mounie. Mr. Sharpeconsidered the Duns picture to be as old as the time; andboth the Yester and the Mounie copies are extremely wellpainted. In his Provincial Antiquities of Scotland (ii. 139),Sir Walter Scott gives the following graphic description of this JSee Ballingalls Edinburgh Past and Present, Sleigh was married, in 1725, to Brodie of Brodie, p. 73, where the information given was furnished the Lyon King of Arms, and is celebrated by by myself. Allan Ramsay.—Chamberss Traditions of Edin- 2 The name is Sleigh not Lee. Mrs. Mally burgh.
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eg PORTRAITS OF THE SETONS 199 famous group: There is, he says, another picture of thisnobleman (George, 7th Lord Seton) well worthy of notice. It isa family piece, comprehending the Lord Seton, his lady (a mistakefor daughter) and four children, painted in a hard, but mostcharacteristic style by Sir Antonio More. The group slope fromeach other like the steps of a stair, and all, from the eldest downto the urchin of ten years old, who is reading his lesson, havethe same grave, haughty, and even grim cast of countenance,which distinguishes the high feudal baron, their father. Thisvery curious portrait was published in Mr. Pinkertons Ichno-graphia after the original, then in the possession of the lateexcellent Lord Somerville, and which is now (1826) the propertyof the present Lord, whose ancestor was married to Lord Setonssister. This picture (often under the eye of the present writerduring moments of much social happiness) is one of the mostcelebrated monuments of art belonging to Sco