Early Scottish Prints
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of over 400 Scottish etchings, engravings and lithographs that date from 1760 to 1880. This collection comprises prints whose subjects are mainly landscape and topography. Scottish town and country scenes were a popular subject in the 19th century, and are represented in work by JH Clark, DO Hill, John Knox, Francis Nicholson, Joseph Swan and Samuel Dukinfield Swarbreck. Nicholson’s lithographs include many locations made popular by the writings of Sir Walter Scott, while Clark’s coloured aquatints of Scottish topography are among the best of their type. Works in the collection of particular interest include almost 70 etchings of a topographical nature by John Clerk of Eldin, 50 etchings by Sir James Stuart – many of which were also inspired by Scott – and 50 etchings by David Deuchar, which are mostly small portraits and genre figures recalling Rembrandt and other Dutch etchers. The collection also represents other well-known names in modest numbers, including David Allan, Dyce, Geddes, Geikie, Gillray, Lizars, W Bell Scott and Wilkie.
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