A woman musician. Engraving by Francis Holl, 1861, after T. Faed.

She sits outside a ruined chapel and has a dog in her lap. A plaid scarf hangs down on the right. On the left, a landscape. On the right, a string instrument like a lute or theorbo. The Oxford English dictionary quotes two passages from Sir Walter Scott using the terms "glee-maiden" and "glee-woman" referring to musicians, in the latter case a solo singer with a viol