Cattle wade at the river's edge as storm-light rakes across the turrets of Abbotsford, Sir Walter Scott's beloved baronial mansion on the banks of the Tweed — a scene at once romantic and theatrical, perfectly in keeping with the great novelist's own sensibility. Artist J. Blair captures the house in autumnal drama, sheep grazing on the lawn, smoke trailing from the chimneys, the dark hills behind charged with Romantic atmosphere. G. Paulin's verse below reads: "Within that pile he dwelt whose ardent soul… Wonderchained the whole of human kind." Issued by Raphael Tuck & Sons as part of their royal-appointment "Scott's Country" Oilette series, this large panoramic card encapsulates the Victorian and Edwardian cult of literary pilgrimage — Abbotsford drew thousands of visitors in Scott's own lifetime, and continues to do so today as one of Scotland's most visited historic houses.