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Queen Elizabeth dancing before Melville
Unknown, 1856, Reproduction
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17490
Title
Queen Elizabeth dancing before Melville
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Unknown
Date
1856
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27.3 x 21.9 cm
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Reproduction
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Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
By Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe
Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (1781-1851) was born in May 1781 at Hoddam, Dumfriesshire.
His was a social and intellectual ancestry of some distinction, and his early education was nourished on Jacobite story and tradition. This period of Scottish sentiment was to be the main driver of his artistic studies and research, and as a collector of antiquities. He was educated in Edinburgh and then at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1806. At the age of about 30 left his Oxford base and became a resident of Edinburgh. Here he continued his correspondence, his society life, and his studies in literature, music and the fine arts. He had a deserved reputation for waspish caricatures and satires, and a marked weakness for scandal.
He died in March 1851, leaving one of the most extensive collections of antiquities ever accumulated by a private individual in Scotland. Much published material survives him, notably The Ballads; Letters; Etchings; studies in Scottish geneaology; and a history of Scottish witchcraft.
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