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Piper David Muir of the Black Watch

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Postcard of Piper David Muir of the Black Watch.
000-000-100-273-C
© National Museums Scotland

Piper David Muir of the Black Watch

Photograph from Queen Victoria's photo album of Piper Muir on his return from the Crimea, 1856. The number 'XLII' can just be seen on the pipe banner: the 42nd was also known as The Black Watch.

This photograph was copied by the French military painter Edouard Détaille.

Photographs from Queen Victoria's photograph album 'Crimean Heroes' were to provide inspiration for both French and British military painters for the rest of the century.


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Online ID: 000-000-100-273-C
Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
Project: 0207: The Thistle at War
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Ref: National Museums Scotland  M.1951.34
Date: 1856
Material: Paper
Dimensions: 212 mm H x 151 mm W
What: Photograph
Subject: Photographs
Who: Queen Victoria
Scots Fusilier Guards (British land forces)
Where:
Event:
Description: 42nd Regiment - Photograph, copy from Queen Victoria's photo album of Piper David Muir, 1856.
References:
  • McCorry, Helen (ed.) The thistle at war: an anthology of the Scottish experience of war, in the services and at home. Edinburgh, NMS, 1997 
  • Wood, Stephen The Scottish soldier. Manchester: Archive Publications in association with the National Museums of Scotland, 1987 
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