Isobel Taylor aged 105 widow of John Alice.

The accompanying text in the volume states as follows:

"This Print was taken from a painting by Mr William Donaldson of this city, by whom it was exhibited and sold to the late Earl of Buchan. From a card, in the hand-writing of his lordship, we observe, in addition to the information conveyed by the inscription on the Engraving, that WIDOW ELLIS was married, in 1745, to Francis Ellis, shoemaker in Keltie, Kinross-shire, who died next year of an iliac passion.

At the time the portrait was executed, (December 1816,) Widow Ellis lived in Rose Street, where she had resided for many years. The particulars of her life are few and uninteresting. She was a sensible, shrewd person; had been active in her youth, and retained even in old age an unusual degree of freshness and vigour."