The accompanying text in the volume begins as follows: "...another of the characters regarding whom the artist has left no record. The portrait is said to bear a striking resemblance to a Mrs Gibb, who at one time was landlady of a tavern of some note, near the head of the Canongate, and which had for its sign the figure of a goat."
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