Portrait of Walter Scott with his dogs Camp and Percy in the Yarrow valley, detail, painted 1809 by Sir Henry Raeburn, 1756-1823, in the Chinese drawing room, in Abbotsford House, built 1817-25 by Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832, Scottish writer and poet, near Melrose, in the Borders, Scotland. The building is in Scottish Baronial style and includes Scott's personal collections of books, furniture and Scottish historical artefacts, making it a centre for European Romanticism. The Scott family still own the building, which is open to the public as a tourist attraction. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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