Not so long ago, I encountered a Georgian picture of a cutter (sailing boat) in a music book that once belonged to Jimmy Shand, and today’s find was just as unexpected. This book belonged to a woman – there’s no way of telling if it was she, or someone else, that drew a series of fashionable women in Victorian bustles and frills! No, this has nothing to do with music, but I thought you might like to see the drawings all the same! They’re in a copy of William Chappell’s A Collection of National English Airs belonging to the Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
And here’s the Georgian cutter from the Jimmy Shand collection in Dundee Central Library. It was rather indistinct, but I’ve since interpreted it in my own, 21st century way:-
Karen McAulay, Musicologist 