Dr Prosody’s Disaster in Ossian’s Hall, Dunkeld in The Tour of Doctor Prosody: In Search of the Antique and Picturesque, through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney and Shetland Isles

A composite of Johnson, Pennant and Gilpin, the giants of the 18th-century Scottish tour, the fictive Dr Prosody was a figure locked in the past. His adventures consistently end in mishap, mocking the supposedly high-minded aspects of the tourist experience. When viewing the Black Linn Falls from Ossian’s Hall on the estate of the Duke of Atholl, his sketching and contemplation is disturbed by a dog chasing its own reflection in the room’s multiple mirrors.