Antiquities of Scotland in a series of etchings / David Roberts.
Published / Created:
[London?] : [Publisher not identified], 1831.
Physical Description:
[9] prints : etchings ; plate marks 26 x 20 cm, on sheets 54 x 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:12220042
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
"As to the etchings they are the first of a series I have some thoughts of publishing on the Antiquitys of Scotland but I do not know that they will come to any thing ... it will be in monthly parts, each part to contain 4 or 5 etchings ... to consist of say twenty parts ... their [sic] will only be a hundred impressions of each."--Roberts to Hay, 15 July 1831, NLS. "Circumstances over which I had little control made me leave England and abandon this pet scheme. Spain, Morocco and Syria broke new ground, and so the ruined abbeys and old castles were left."--Roberts to David Laing, 14 Dec. 1859, EUL. Both excepts quoted from Guiterman, p. 101. In a letter of September, 1831, Roberts notes that "not more than 6 impressions" of each print would be made. It appears that Roberts gave most to friends. These are captioned by Roberts in graphite.
Contents:
Roberts' additional graphite inscriptions are lableled "[Inscribed:]" [Title leaf] [Inscribed:] Icolmkill -- Caerlaveroc [Inscribed:] Entrance to the Castle of Caerlaverock, Dumfreishire -- Icolmkill [Inscribed:] Chancel of the Cathedral of Icomkill -- [Inscribed:] East Front of Melrose Abbey -- St. Andrews [Inscribed:] Remains of the Cathedral of St Regulus St Andrews -- Lvchevrs [Inscribed:] Norman Church at Lucheurs Fifeshire -- [Inscribed:] Remains of the Chapel of the Monastery of the Greyfriars St Andrews -- [Inscribed:] Falkland Palace -- Sweet Heart [Inscribed:] Sweetheart Abbey Dumfreishire.
Subject Terms:
Scotland -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works. | Castles -- Scotland -- Pictorial works. | Church buildings -- Scotland -- Pictorial works. | Roberts, David, 1796–1864 -- Presentation inscription to Andrew Mackay. | Mackay, Andrew -- Presentation inscription from David Roberts.