print;
book of prints
- Museum number
- 1983,U.2364.1-7
- Title
- Object: Six Engravings in Illustration of St. Ronan's Well
- Description
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"Six Engravings in Illustration of The Fair Maid of Perthe. For the Members of the Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland" 1882; containing a frontispiece heliogravure showing Meg Dods after George Reid, and 5 further prints after various artists illustrating excerpts and places from Walter Scott's novel, including "Shaws Castle (Traquair House), with Gateway", "Meeting of Tyrrel and Miss Mowbray", "Captian MacTurk, Sir Bingo Binks, Winterblossom, and Dr. Quackleben, Waiting for Tyrrel", "Meg Dods Arriving in her 'Whiskey' at the Lawyer's", and "Mr. Touchwood Introduces Himself to the Rev. W. Cargill in His Study". Bound together with letterpress titlepage printed with wood-engraved vignette showing St. Ronan's Village, and list of engravings. In original brown cloth boards with gold-tooled title.
Etching and engraving, probably from steel plates
Photogravure
- Production date
- 1882
- Dimensions
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Height: 425 millimetres (sheet size of each page)
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Width: 295 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Publications for the Members of the Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland for the years 1860-1861, 1865-1869, 1871, 1873, 1875-1878 and 1882 are kept at 193*.a.6 to 18.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Six Engravings in Illustration of St. Ronan's Well
- Acquisition date
- 1944
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1983,U.2364.1-7
