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Jemima Wedderburn (19th Century) and other Contemporaries
Curling, Whinnieliggate Pond, The Earl of Selkirk playing: Mr Mure beside him, Mr Bumming Bruce dancing, Col. Oswald (Dunnilcer) Jemima Wedderburn, Helen Blackburn, Hugh Blackburn, Lady Montgomery, Sir Graham Montgomery, Mr Carnegie, Isabella Blackburn and Lady Katherine Douglas, 4th Dec. 1846
dated lower right 4th Decr 1846, pencil and watercolour
6¾ x 10½in. (17.2 x 26.6cm); and 120 other watercolours and drawings recording incidents and memories of the artist's Childhood and Family life including Religious, Social and Sporting Occasions from 1837 to 1883.
The illustrations depict occasions and friendships with the Blackburn, Colville, Douglas, Hope, Maxwell, Selkirk and other Scottish Families during the Nineteenth Century.
some signed with initials, inscribed and mostly dated between 1837-1883 14 x 10in. (35.5 x 25.4cm) and smaller
(a lot)
Jemima Wedderburn was the youngest daughter to James Wedderburn, Solicitor General for Scotland and Isabella only sister to Sir George Clerk of Penicuik and niece to Jean, Countess of Selkirk. Born on 1st May 1823 she married Hugh Blackburn of Roshven, youngest Brother to Peter Blackburn of Killearn on 12th June 1849.
Curling, Whinnieliggate Pond, The Earl of Selkirk playing: Mr Mure beside him, Mr Bumming Bruce dancing, Col. Oswald (Dunnilcer) Jemima Wedderburn, Helen Blackburn, Hugh Blackburn, Lady Montgomery, Sir Graham Montgomery, Mr Carnegie, Isabella Blackburn and Lady Katherine Douglas, 4th Dec. 1846
dated lower right 4th Decr 1846, pencil and watercolour
6¾ x 10½in. (17.2 x 26.6cm); and 120 other watercolours and drawings recording incidents and memories of the artist's Childhood and Family life including Religious, Social and Sporting Occasions from 1837 to 1883.
The illustrations depict occasions and friendships with the Blackburn, Colville, Douglas, Hope, Maxwell, Selkirk and other Scottish Families during the Nineteenth Century.
some signed with initials, inscribed and mostly dated between 1837-1883 14 x 10in. (35.5 x 25.4cm) and smaller
(a lot)
Jemima Wedderburn was the youngest daughter to James Wedderburn, Solicitor General for Scotland and Isabella only sister to Sir George Clerk of Penicuik and niece to Jean, Countess of Selkirk. Born on 1st May 1823 she married Hugh Blackburn of Roshven, youngest Brother to Peter Blackburn of Killearn on 12th June 1849.