This work encompasses some of the artist's favourite themes - the landscape and people of his home county of East Lothian. The subject is workers gathering potatoes in a field near a bend in the River Tyne, with the Garlton Hills in the background and the red roofs of Sandy's Mill on the right.

An oil painting in a gilt wood and plaster frame. The subject is a landscape, a view over fieldworkers with their cart and sacks of patoatoes to a tree-lined river and rolling landscape beyond. Several clusters of buildings appear through the trees.

WD MacKay (1844-1924) was born in Gifford and produced works inspired by his home district throughout his working life. He is best known for pastoral oil paintings but also worked in watercolour and pencil. He became librarian of the Royal Scottish academy in 1896 and was secretary from 1907 until his death.