'Inside of a poor weavers cottage at Ilay' Gun Street 18th September 1975

18th September 1975

'The trial of Sir William Wallace at Westminster'

View of Queen Victoria's royal progress through the City of London

Coronation of King George IV

'Inside of a poor weavers cottage at Ilay' Gun Street 18th September 1975Inside 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