A late scene at Barnet

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A late scene at Barnet
etching with engraving
image: 102 x 168 mm; sheet: 118 x 186 mm
Peel 2610
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Print from the London Magazine, October 1771, page 482 (facing), illustrating an account of the affair of Lady Mary Scott (née Hay), the young wife of Major-General John Scott of Balcomie, and her lover, Captain James Sutherland of Duffus; the pair evidently fled together from Balcomie in October of 1771 and were subsequently apprehended at Barnet by her husband and his men, where Sutherland was said to have made good his escape through a bedroom window.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.

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Social satire: a party (led by Major-General John Scott of Balcomie) bursts into a bedroom where a half-naked lover (Captain James Sutherland) jumps out of a window leaving his mistress (Lady Mary Scott) behind in a four-poster bed.

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