Catalogue entry
[from] Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland pub.1819–26 [T04485-T04501; complete]
Seventeen etchings and line-engravings, in various states, comprising nine subjects out of a total of twelve; various papers and sizes; some annotated in pencil with names or initials of collectors or bearing collector's stamp
Purchased (Grant-in-Aid) 1986
Prov: ...; N.W. Lott and H.J. Gerrish Ltd, from whom bt by Tate Gallery (earlier provenance given in individual entries where known)
Lit: Gerald Finley, Landscapes of Memory: Turner as Illustrator to Scott, 1980; Turner in Scotland, exh. cat., Aberdeen Art Gallery 1982
In 1818 Turner received a commission for a series of plates showing Scottish locations which were to be accompanied by a text by Sir Walter Scott, who had proposed the project. The venture was to be financed by shareholders who, besides Turner, included other illustrators of the work - Edward Blore and Scott's friend, the amateur landscape painter, the Revd John Thomson of Duddingston - as well as the engravers George Cooke, Henry Le Keux and William Lizars… (read more)
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