Claud Boswell, Lord Balmuto, by John Kay, 1792/1835.

[ Lord Balmuto ] dated 1799. 'CLAUD IRVINE BOSWELL, LORD BALMUTO, was born in 1742. His father, John Boswell of Balmuto, dying when he was a mere infant, the care of his education devolved on his mother, a woman of uncommon mental energy and exemplary piety. She placed him, in his seventh year, with Mr. Barclay at Dalkeith, then a celebrated master, under whose superintendence Henry Dundas, afterwards Lord Melville, was at the time acquiring the rudiments of learning ; and an intimacy was formed between the two school-boys, which continued till the death of Lord Melville in May 1811..' Copper etched print published in Kay's Edinburgh Portraits, 1837-8. Size 10 x 13 cms to plate mark, plus wide margins. Ref D9429