James Torrance (1859-1916) Scottish portrait painter and illustrator |
James Caw particularly noted James Torrance’s portrayals of women and children. Torrance was also an accomplished illustrator in black and white, and his illustrated work includes “Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales,” edited by Sir George Douglas (1893). In 1898, he was invited to exhibit with the International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers when James Abbott McNeill Whistler was President. |
Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales
Illustrations are from “Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales;” selected and edited, with an introduction, by Sir George Douglas [London: Walter Scott, 1893]
Rashin Coatie
And when she tried on the shoe it fitted her
The Sea Maiden
But at last he cut one of the heads off her
The Worme of Linton
Thrusting down the worm's throat a peat dipped in scalding pitch
Habitrot
She was surprised to see by the margin of the stream an old woman
The Fairy and the Bible Reader
The fairy flung her arms despairingly above her head, and with a shriek plunged into the sea
The Gloaming Bucht
“Bliss us a’ ― what’s that?”
Nuckelavee
Tammie felt the wind of Nuckelavee’s clutches
The Witches of Delnabo
“Go,” says he, “in the name of the best.”
The Winding Sheet
Saw a corpse...in his winding sheet
The Witty Exploits of Mr. George Buchanan
George was met one day by three bishops
