NOTES ON THE ART TREASURES AT PENICUIK HOUSE MIDLOTHIAN
OTES ON THE ART TREASURES
AT PENICUIK HOUSE MIDLOTHIAN
BY JOHN M. GRAY F.S.A. SCOT.
CURATOR SCOTTISH NATIONAL
PORTRAIT GALLERY.
REPRINTED, WITH LARGE ADDITIONS, FROM “THE SCOTTISH LEADER.”
FIFTY COPIES
FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION.
1889.
THE ART TREASURES OF SCOTLAND.
III. PENICUIK HOUSE.
I.
There are few Scottish families that, during the last two hundred years, have been more closely connected with the progress of culture in their native country than the Clerks of Penicuik.