Author:
[St Andrews University, Fife, Scotland: Kate Kennedy Day 1871; John Stuart Mill]
Publication details:
Victorian photographic print of illustration ‘signed’ ‘Kate Kennedy pinxit / 1871’.
The tradition of this annual day of revels at Scotland's oldest university St Andrews is said to date back to the fifteenth century and is said to commemorate the visits of a lady Katharine Kennedy to her uncle, Bishop Kennedy of St Andrews, every Spring. 9 x 5 cm sepia photographic print of illustration, laid down on 10.5 x 6 cm piece of card, and clearly made in the nineteenth century. In fair condition, lightly aged. As part of the print, at bottom right: ‘Kate Kennedy pinxit / 1871’.
