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Cunningham, Allan
17841842, Scottish author. His collection of The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern (4 vol., 1825) included his own A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea, one of the best-known sea ballads. His six-volume Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects appeared from 1829 to 1833.