'Auld Robin Gray'

Details

William Henry Midwood (fl.1866-1871)
'Auld Robin Gray'
signed and dated 'W H Midwood. 1866' (lower right)
oil on canvas
10½ x 13 in. (26.6 x 33 cm.)

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Lot Essay

'Auld Robin Gray' is the title of a ballad by the Scottish poet Lady Anne Lindsay (1750-1825). It tells the story of Robin Gray, a good old man who marries a young girl whose lover is thought to have died in a shipwreck, only to return alive a month later.

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