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The Glee Maiden

Printmaker: Stocks, Lumb, RA · 1812-1892Publisher: Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland · 1849-1891Primary artist: Lauder, Robert Scott, RSA · 1803-1869

The Glee Maiden

Report of the Committee of Management of the Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland for 1842-43, 1843, page 10 records; "The…

Report of the Committee of Management of the Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland for 1842-43, 1843, page 10 records; "The Committee beg also to report that the engraving after Mr Lauder's painting of the Glee Maiden, which will fall to be distributed amongst the Subscribers of 1843-44 is in a forward and highly promising state. After due consideration of the claims of a large number of competing engravers, the Committee consider themselves fortunate in the choice they have made of Mr L Stocks to engrave the beautiful subject, and they confidently anticipate that this work when completed will, by its excellence and beauty, give unmitigated satisfaction."

Lauder's original painting was exhibited at the RSA Annual Exhibition of 1842 (cat.197) from where purchased by an unidentified buyer according to the inscribed copy of the catalogue in RSA Archives, rather than by RAPFAS.

It appeared in the exhibition catalogue accompanied by the following quote from Scott's The Fair Maid of Perth; "Monk.—The Chapel of Holy St Madox is no tiring-room for jugglers and strollers\ to shift their trappings in.—There, daughter of folly, there is a robing-room where many/ before you have deposited their vestments.”

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