Sir Walter Scott's death mask

A carte-de-visite showing Sir Walter Scott's death mask.

The hugely popular author and poet Sir Walter Scott died on 21 September 1832, at Abbotford, his home in the Scottish Borders.

His best known works today are Ivanhoe (1819), Rob Roy (1817),The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818), and The Bride of Lammermoor (1819). His Waverley (1814) is the only novel anywhere in the world to have a train station named after it (Waverley in Edinburgh).

Photographed by George Washington Wilson of Aberdeen.