Yes it gets tricky with those and the several other MacDonald tartans!
Here's the portrait in question
Between the two lads there are four different red tartans, going to show that at this time the concept of "clan tartans" probably hadn't evolved.
And here is the tartan derived from that worn by the boy on the left, the same pipe band wearing both the version with the black line and without, one for the kilts, one for the plaids (not the drum major... look at the pipers)
and here's the green one
which by the way has been adopted here by one of our High Schools... the entire Marching Band wears it.
http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_19329439
I would greatly prefer it if it were woven in a nice large sett more suitable for a man's kilt.
The Allen Bros "MacDonald of the Isles" is interesting because it has more artistic proportions than is usual for their efforts (which usually have two, three, or four equal stripes). To me this suggests that they lifted the design from somewhere. Note that it doesn't contain the "MacDonald motif" which most MacDonald tartans do.
It's quite lovely and translates very well to various colour schemes
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