It is not always easy to differentiate between the work of Bell Scott and Alice Boyd, but about six of the present drawings seem to be by Scott and twenty-two by his pupil. Those by or attributable to Scott include two pen-and-ink studies for etchings illustrating the life and works of Robert Burns (lot 108); a composition with a girl decorating china; and a sketch of what is presumably the artist's etching press. Those certainly or probably by Miss Boyd (at least one is signed) include landscapes, portraits, a scene with a Punch and Judy show and another imaginary subject, and several copies. Among these are heads of James I of Scotland (the author of The King's Quair; see lot 103) and his wife; a likeness of Luca della Robbia; and a well-known majolica plate in the Soulages collection, acquired for the nation in 1856 and now in the V&A.
The photographs include two studio portraits of Scott; interior and exterior views of Bellevue House, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, the house to which the Scott/Boyd ménage moved in 1870 to be near D.G. Rossetti; an interior view of the dining hall which was added to Penkill from Scott's own designs in 1883-4, with Scott himself, Alice Boyd and her dog, Ogier, seated round the fireplace; a view of the glen at Penkill, dated 27 September 1871; and a touched photograph of a portrait of Walt Whitman by H.H. Gilchrist, dated June 1888.

An etching, presumably by Scott and touched by him with white bodycolour, reproduces his painting The Norns watering the Tree of Life, dated 1876, which was included in Christie's Penkill sale, 15 December 1992, lot 181.