Notice of 'The Black Book of Breadalbane,' preserved at Taymouth, containing portraits of several members of the Breadalbane Family, executed in the beginning of the Seventeenth Century

Abstract

This article discusses the contents of a volume written by Master William Bowie in the seventeenth century. The author highlights the information this record provides us about contemporary portraiture and notes that there are some sketches included at the back of the book that the artist may have sketched from life.