MacNachtan

Category

Library Item

Item no

13150

Title

MacNachtan

Description

A man, possibly a game keeper or shepherd dressed in an ample plaid of the MacNachtan tartan, is seen battling against a storm. He is carrying a rifle and smoking a pipe.

Artist / maker

McIan, Robert Ronald

Engraver

Kinnebrook, W.

Date

1845

Size

34.7 x 24.5 cm

Type

Lithograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The accompanying text in 'The Clans of the Scottish Highlands' by James Logan begins as follows:
"SIOL NEACHDANN, OR MAC NACHTANS

This tribe may yeild to few others in the antiquity of its name. Tradition derives this clan from Nachtan, a hero in the reign of Malcolm IV, who succeeded to the crown in 1153, but it is believed that they were long previously a powerful tribe in the province of Moray. The name is identic [sic] with the Pictish Nectan, celebrated in the regal chronicle of that nation, one of the great Celtic divisions in Scotland, and the appellation is among the most ancient in the north of Ireland, the former seat of the Cruthen Picts."

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Clothing and dress > Accessories > Hats

Clothing and dress > Accessories > Hosiery

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Clothing and dress > Garments > Plaid

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People > Agriculture and fisheries > Gamekeepers

People > Agriculture and fisheries > Shepherds

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