Figure and Ground

Part of the estate of the second Earl Grey (1832 Reform Bill) on the Northumberland coast, UK.

The tea was taken in the second floor lounge.

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Winter's Gibbet, Elsdon, Northumberland.

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September 9 1513: in the low rolling hills of north Northumberland an invading Scottish army was defeated in the bloodiest ever encounter between England and Scotland. James IV, King of the Scots, nine of his Earls, fourteen Lords of Parliament, five Highland Chiefs and 10,000 men at arms fell between 4 and 6 o'clock that afternoon.

We'll hae nae mair lilting, at the yowe-milking,
Women and bairns are dowie and wae.
Sighing and moaning, on ilka green loaning,
The flowers of the forest are all wede away.

Jean Elliot "Flowers of the Forest" 1755

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Abbotsford, Scottish borders, home of Walter Scott: armor from the field of Waterloo (1815); the skull of Rob Roy (cast, 1734).

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