Stuart Eydmann wrote:
> In connection with your previous message regarding Burn's as a potential
> 'Negro driver' - no doubt you are famous with the super portrait of the
> Glasgow tobacco merchant Glassford and his family in which one of his
seven
> children is playing an early guitar. Were the instrument and its players
> linked to the slave trade? We need to know.
No, I don't know this painting, Stuart. Please tell me where it is housed.
And while we are at it, I am trying to draw together as much material as I
can for a history of the guitar and cittern in Scotland, so if anyone has
ANY info, no matter how small or seemingly irrelevant, please let me know
about it.
Rob
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http://www.robmackillop.com
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