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Offline Silent Invader

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Picture ID please - possibly Osprey
« on: May 20, 2022, 05:55:18 PM »
Can anyone help ID this image for me. It looks like it’s from an Osprey publication - possibly one covering the Scottish events of the mid 17th C - but if so I haven’t been able to work out which book.

I believe it depicts Lord Lewis Gordon and his master burner in 1646

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Re: Picture ID please - possibly Osprey
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2022, 06:10:55 PM »
Reverse image search only brings up a single Twitter post. Which is odd in its own way

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Re: Picture ID please - possibly Osprey
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2022, 06:12:56 PM »
It's definitely Angus McBride's work. Don't know about which Osprey, though.

He did a lot of work for Look and Learn magazine back in the 70s. Maybe it's from that?

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Offline Silent Invader

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Re: Picture ID please - possibly Osprey
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2022, 06:24:40 PM »
Interesting; thanks chaps for your efforts and thoughts.

I’m flummoxed  o_o

Offline joroas

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Re: Picture ID please - possibly Osprey
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2022, 07:20:56 PM »
It's from Highland Clansmen 1689-1746 by Stuart Reid and Angus McBride
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Re: Picture ID please - possibly Osprey
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2022, 07:39:28 PM »
It's from Highland Clansmen 1689-1746 by Stuart Reid and Angus McBride


No wonder I wasn’t able to find it. I understood it to be centred on Lewis Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Huntly (c. 1626–1653) and was guessing it portrayed the sacking of Aberdeen in 1644. It didn’t occur to me that it’d be in a book covering from 1689.

Thanks very much :)

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Re: Picture ID please - possibly Osprey
« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2022, 08:38:30 AM »
The book has a slightly wider time scale than the title suggests.
It's a good one.

Offline Friends of General Haig

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Re: Picture ID please - possibly Osprey
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2022, 09:18:11 AM »
I agree, it’s a great book, but with a wider date range than the title suggests, as has been mentioned.  There is also a colour plate covering Auldearn in 1645!

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Re: Picture ID please - possibly Osprey
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2022, 01:28:20 PM »
Thanks both, I see I shall have to get a copy :)

 

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