Watercolour painting of the Busby Library. Pencil and watercolour on paper, resembles the Busby Library today, except that the ceiling and presses are now replicas of these, and the presses lack the metal bars; a scholar stands in the middle of the room and another sits in the corner, Busby's chair is in the middle of the room; desks line the walls. Glazed with glass Previously referenced as P0001/72
Sans titreScott is portrayed in caricature, facing left; he wears black academic dress and collar; he is swinging a whip in his right hand at a spinning top on the left; on the right is a mortar board; the background shows Little Dean's Yard facing East, with the archway up School.
A view of the East Cloister of the Abbey, looking North towards the Dark Cloister; two men in clerical robes are talking in the middle ground; a couple in the background walk arm-in-arm towards the entrance to the Dark Cloister, tools and an apron are lying on the right of the foreground.
Yard, facing East. A man in clerical robe and surplice and three scholars in formal dress and surplices are in the right foreground. Two men talk in the left foreground, one in red clerical robe and surplice. Two boys can be seen at the top of the stairs up School.
Sans titreThe man on the left is tall with white hair surrounding a large bald patch (Liddell); the man on the right is much smaller, he has grey hair and wears a black hat.
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