Daniell'ss Scotland: A Voyage Round the Coast of Scotland and the Adjacent Isles, 1815-1822: A Series of Views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast: in Two Volumes

摘要

It is a joy - and a surprise - to see this work. The original work is held by The National Library of Scotland (as MS.6140/ii-vi) and was scanned for this modern facsimile reprint. Financial assistance for the project was given by the Russell Trust. An earlier fascimile edition is noted by Elizabeth Bray in her foreword, an edition of 300 copies with monochrome illustrations form the Tate Gallery Scolar Press, London, 1978. Bray's own study of travellers to the Western Isles between 1745 and 1883 merits examination. William Daniell (1769-1837) was an English painter and aquatint specialist. With his uncle Thomas (1749-1840), also an artist, William voyaged through China and India in the 1780s and this led eventually to an illustrated book called A Picturesque Voyage to India by Way of China, published in 1819. William was also known for his landscape scenes of nature and for his pictures of ships, and became a Royal Academician in 1822.