Autumn blazes across the Scottish Borders in this luminous Oilette study by artist A. Young — amber and russet foliage crowds the foreground as the River Tweed winds its silver thread through the valley below Bemerside Hill, with the triple peaks of the Eildons rising blue-hazed in the middle distance and the rooftops of Melrose barely discernible beyond; a flock of sheep grazes the meadow in the quiet middle ground, composing a scene that Sir Walter Scott called his favourite view in all Scotland. Published in Tuck's "Scott's Country" series, this plate-marked Oilette connects the golden age of postcard collecting with one of the great literary pilgrimages of the Victorian and Edwardian eras — tourists flocked to the Borders following Scott's novels and poems, and publishers like Tuck supplied the visual souvenirs. The reverse quotes Scott directly: "Looking over hill and vale, over Tweed's fair flood, and all down Teviotdale."