'Inside of a poor weavers cottage at Ilay' Size:XL: 100 x 80cm the Great Catalani

the Great Catalani

circa 1960s

The figures represent raving and melancholy madness and were the work of Caius Gabriel Cibber

where the funeral was held

7th May 1962

'Inside of a poor weavers cottage at Ilay' Size:XL: 100 x 80cm the Great CatalaniInside of a poor weavers cottage at Ilay'. A family with four children and a woman sit around a hearth in left foreground, a man weaves on a loom in left background. Illustration from A tour in Scotland and voyage to the Hebrides, by Thomas Pennant (Chester, 1774). Thomas Pennant (17261798), naturalist, traveller, and writer was the author of a number of popular travel narratives of Britain, in the eighteenth century. He first made a tour of Scotland