Location
Delgatie Castle
Turriff, Aberdeenshire
Date
Uncertain
Description
A text work painted on the ceiling beams in a room reputed to have provided lodging for Mary Queen of Scots, this painting confuses me as the text is the same as 2 stanzas in the poem "Kilmeny" by James Hogg 1770–1835 (it is a part of her prophetic vision during her stay among the fairies) . I admit my ignorance, I do not know if the ceiling painting is in fact a modern work or if this part of the poem was copied by Hogg from an earlier source.
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She saw a lady sit on a throne,
The fairest that ever the sun shone on!
A lion lick'd her hand of milk,
And she held him in a leish of silk;
And a leifu' maiden stood at her knee,
With a silver wand and melting e'e;
Her sovereign shield till love stole in,
And poison'd all the fount within.
Then a gruff untoward bedesman came,
And hundit the lion on his dame;
And the guardian maid wi' the dauntless e'e,
She dropp'd a tear, and left her knee;
And she saw till the queen frae the lion fled,
Till the bonniest flower of the world lay dead;
Era
Unknown
Related Artefacts
- Delgatie Castle
- The 1592 Ceiling, Delgatie
- The 1597 Ceiling, Delgatie
- The 1800 Laundry, Delgatie
- Unicorn, Delgatie
Categories
Photographer
- David Watson Hood
Unavailable Data
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- Information Source
- Iconography
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