William Daniell
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Glasgow Museums has eleven aquatints and four watercolours of Scottish scenes by the renowned English landscape and marine painter William Daniell (1769–1837). The works all relate to an ambitious project which Daniell embarked on in 1814 to document the British coastline. In total he produced 308 aquatint etchings for his eight-volume A Voyage Round Great Britain (1814–25). His only aids were a small camera obscura and sketchbook. Both illustrations and text provide important evidence of the landscape, people and culture before the age of photography and herald the early years of tourism. Richard Ayton wrote the text for the first two volumes, but after this Daniell decided to continue alone. The next four volumes concentrate on Scotland. Although the text is less accomplished, these volumes are considered the most important because of the number and quality of the landscape illustrations.
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