'Inside of a poor weavers cottage at Ilay' Size:XL: 100 x 80cm Mrs Gilpin and others are

Mrs Gilpin and others are looking in alarm from the balcony

the Great Catalani

circa 1960s

The figures represent raving and melancholy madness and were the work of Caius Gabriel Cibber

He is modelling an Oxford Bags dress

'Inside of a poor weavers cottage at Ilay' Size:XL: 100 x 80cm Mrs Gilpin and others areInside 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