Just be aware that Robert Jones (RR McIan was a stage name) was an English actor, stage painter, and illustrator.
His illustrations don't agree with what we know about historical Highland Dress, and it's fitting to make the distinction between actual illustrations of Highland Dress (that is, early portraits done from life of men wearing Highland Dress) and illustrations done long after the period in question showing little in the way of research about, or familiarity with, Highland Dress.
Before getting the Logan job he was painting and exhibiting in London illustrations based on Scottish mythology. His illustrations done for Logan were also more in the line of mythology or fantasy.
In London, Jones met the Allen Brothers, also Englishmen who adopted Scottish aliases. Though the Allen Brothers' illustrations are far more fantastical than Jones', yet they do share some features, like the Ghillie shoes which first appear in all three men's illustrations.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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