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Anonymous, after John Lamont Brodie
Description
English: Engraving of the John Lamont Brodie painting The Fiery Cross, published in The Illustrated London News on 25 July 1863. The painting illustrates the old Scottish custom of summoning clansmen to war with a burning cross, and may have been inspired by a scene from Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake in which such a cross is carried over Loch Katrine.
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