The accompanying text in the volume begins as follows:
"This print represents the MARQUIS OF HUNTLY, when about the age of twenty-one. He was born at Edinburgh on the 1st of February 1770. His first entry on public life was by adopting the profession of arms, and in being appointed Captain of an independent company of Highlanders raised by himself in 1790 and with which he joined the 42d Regiment, or Royal Highlanders, the following year. Shortly afterwards, the regiment remained nearly a twelvemonth in Edinburgh Castle, during which period Kay embraced the opportunity of etching the "Highland Chieftain."
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