Miss Emily Pringle

[This sitting does not appear in the Silvy daybooks in the archives of the National Portrait Gallery. Presumably the sitter visited the studio between July 1863 and June 1864, the period covered by the missing daybook.]

The sitter was identified on the album page. Though there are other candidates for a fuller identification, this is possibly the Miss Emily Pringle whose forthcoming marriage was announced in the Kelso Chroncicle on 8 December 1865. 'MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE  - We understand that a marriage is arranged to come off on the 19th instant, between Mr Gordon, of Cluny, in Aberdeenshire, and Miss Emily Pringle, daughter of John Pringle, Esq., civil service, H.E.I.C. [Honourable East India Company], and granddaughter of Sir John Pringle, Bart., late of Stitchel.'