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Dr Syntax – portraits and self-portrait

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In Issue 174 we featured an article about John Sheriff (aka Dr Syntax), a noted Edinburgh eccentric of the 19th century with Broughton connections. Since then, a paper by John Thomson – 'Unpublished Portraits of Sir Walter Scott'  in The Century (Vol. 58, Issue 3, July 1899) – has come to light. In it are reproduced a self-portrait by Sheriff, and two pen-and-ink studies of Sir Walter Scott. They can be seen at: http://digital.library.cornell.edu