print;
title-page;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1858,0626.111
- Title
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Object: It is night, I am alone, folorn on the hill of storms
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Object: The Poems of Ossian
- Description
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Title-page and frontispiece to an edition of Ossian, printed from a single plate.
frontispiece to left, a young woman on a hilltop at night, by a stream, clutching a tartan shawl around her, looking to left, a soldier lying on the ground in the background to right.
titlepage to right, with a vignette of a man in Scottish dress reclining with a dog by a stream, observed by a woman from a rock behind to left. 1819
Etching and engraving on chine collé
- Production date
- 1819
- Dimensions
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Height: 142 millimetres
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Width: 167 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The edition described by Heath is earlier, published by Walker and Harris in 1812.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Poems of Ossian
- Acquisition date
- 1858
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1858,0626.111
