Glasgow

When the steamer had slowly backed out, and John MacAlpine had thrown off the hawser [rope], we began to feel that our once powerful clan was now represented by a feeble old man and his granddaughter, who, together with some outlying kith-and-kin, myself among the number, owned not a single blade of grass in the glen that was once all our own.

Quote (probably by the artist himself) in the catalogue of the Royal Academy when this painting was exhibited in 1865