Elegy to Captain Ferguson
A Night of Islands, a suite of 10 colour etchings with text.
Signed.
Edition of 40. Signed, numbered and titled verso.
Captain Ferguson was a notorious Hanovarian naval officer, originally from Scotland, who brutally supressed the Highland people after the Battle of Culloden in 1746. The poem in Gaelic ‘Marbhrann do Chaiptean Fearghuston’ by Iain Mac Fhearchair (John MacCodrum), an eighteenth-century bard from Uist, tells of the rumour of the death of Captain Ferguson by drowning, which unfortunately proved to be false. Will Maclean’s etching shows the five mountains which narrate the poem and the face of the drowned Ferguson with an upturned ship as his mouth.
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A Night of Islands, a suite of 10 colour etchings with text.
Signed.
Edition of 40. Signed, numbered and titled verso.
Captain Ferguson was a notorious Hanovarian naval officer, originally from Scotland, who brutally supressed the Highland people after the Battle of Culloden in 1746. The poem in Gaelic ‘Marbhrann do Chaiptean Fearghuston’ by Iain Mac Fhearchair (John MacCodrum), an eighteenth-century bard from Uist, tells of the rumour of the death of Captain Ferguson by drowning, which unfortunately proved to be false. Will Maclean’s etching shows the five mountains which narrate the poem and the face of the drowned Ferguson with an upturned ship as his mouth.
