Cargill and Touchwood

Cargill and Touchwood is an 1831 genre painting by the Irish artist William Mulready. It depicts a scene from the 1823 novel Saint Ronan's Well by Walter Scott.^{[1] [2]} It portrays the meddlesome nabob Peregrine Touchwood barging in on the Reverend Josiah Cargill, the minister of the spa town of Saint Ronan's, while he is reading. Despite the contrasting worldviews the two men eventually form a bond over their shared interest in the Holy Land which Touchwood has visited and Cargill has read a great deal about. The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1832 at Somerset House in London. Today it is part of the collection of the Yale Center for British Art in Connecticut having been given by Paul Mellon.^[3]

Cargill and Touchwood
Artist	William Mulready
Year	1831
Type	Oil on panel, genre painting
Dimensions	51.4 cm × 41.9 cm (20.2 in × 16.5 in)
Location	Yale Center for British Art, New Haven