Excerpt from Memories of Sir Walter Scott
Skene’s tastes were artistic and scientific rather than literary, and Scott, who considered him the first amateur draughtsman in Scotland, ’ had a high Opinion of his talent. The pencil sketches and water-colour drawings that adorn the journals of his foreign travels are exquisitely finished, though the etchings he published of the Waverley Localities’ scarcely do him justice. In the ballad hunting expeditions in Ettrick Forest, which were an excuse for the wild ‘cross-country riding that they both loved, Skene was seldom without his sketch-book.
As thou with pencil, I with pen, The features traced of hill and glen.’
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