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This volume examines the ways in which Scottish identity was expressed through visual and material culture in the early to mid-nineteenth centuries, culminating in Victoria's romanticisation of Scotland, or 'Balmorality'. Key artists included Sir David Wilkie, Alexander Nasmyth and Henry Raeburn and later Horatio McCulloch who helped to perpetuate the myth of Scotland as a retrogressive, highland nation. In 1826, the Royal Scottish Academy was established in Edinburgh, providing artists with the opportunity to train and exhibit their work. Under Robert Scott Lauder at the Trustee's Academy, a new generation of artists emerged, among them William McTaggart, who continued to engage with historical subjects, but who was more experimental in their approach. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students of Art History and Scottish History.
Contents
Volume 1
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
General Introduction
Introduction to Volume 1
Part 1. National Identity
1. John Pinkerton An Enquiry into the History of Scotland Preceding the Reign of Malcolm III or the year 1056. Including the authentic history of that period. vol. 1 (London: John Nichols & John Bell Edinburgh 1789), pp. iii-xliii, 14-18.
2. Patrick Fraser Tytler, History of Scotland, Vol.II (Edinburgh: William Tait, 1829), pp. 259-275
3. Jane Porter, The Scottish Chiefs, Vol.1. (London: Longman Hurst Reece and Orme 1810), pp.1-8
4. Blind Harry, 'The Battle of Biggar', The History of the Life, Adventures and heroic Actions of the Celebrated Sir William Wallace. General and Governor of Scotland. 'The Wallace' (New York: William H. Crawford, 1820 edition), pp. 94-98.
5. James Melville Memoirs of His Own Life, (Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club [no.18], 1827)
6. James Kirkton The Secret and true History of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the year 1678. To which is added An account of the Murder of Archbishop Sharp by James Russell, an actor therein Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (ed.)(Edinburgh: John Ballantyne 1817), pp. 410-422
7. Thomas McCrie, The Works of Thomas McCrie, D.D., vol. 4. 'Review of Tales of my Landlord' (Edinburgh: William Blackwood 1857), pp. 9-17
Part 2. Walter Scott and Highlandism
8. Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto 6th (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, and Edinburgh: A. Constable and Co. 1805), pp. 161-163.
9. Elizabeth Grant, Memoirs of a Highland Lady (London: John Murray 1898) pp. 203-210
10. Anon. Edinburgh Review, 'Art XI. Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since'. Vol 24. Issue 47 (Edinburgh: A. Constable and London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown 1814) pp. 208-214.
11. Robert Mudie, A Historical Account of His Majesty's Visit to Scotland (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd 1822), pp. 30-34, 88-89
12. John MacCulloch, The Highlands and Western Scenery of Scotland ..... in letters to Walter Scott: (London: Longman' Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green 1824), pp. 1-14.
13. William Hazlitt, 'Sir Walter Scott', in The Spirit of the Age or Contemporary Portraits, vol. 1, (Paris: A and W Galigani 1825), pp. 123-145
14. W. Stirling Maxwell The Scott Exhibition. Catalogue of the Exhibition held at Edinburgh, in July and August 1871, on occasion of the commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott (Edinburgh 1872), pp. vii-xiv
Part 3. Romanticism and Scottish Landscape
15. David Dreadnought, "Report on the Landscape Department" in Report of the Edinburgh Society of the Cognoscenti on the Exhibition of the Scottish Institution for Encouraging the Fine Arts (Edinburgh, 26 March 1822), pp. 8-21.
16. Dorothy Wordsworth; John Campbell Shairp ed., Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland in 1803, second edition (New York: GP Putnam & Sons, 1874), pp. 81-87.
17. Charles Cordiner, 'The Greenloch in Glen-more', in Remarkable Ruins and Romantic Prospects of North Britain, (London, 1788)
18. George Walker, Descriptive Catalogue of a choice assemblage of original pictures by some of the most esteemed masters of the Italian, French, Flemish, Dutch and British schools, selected during a period of thirty years, (Edinburgh: University Press, 1807), pp. 30-34.
19. Joseph Swan and John M Leighton, 'Preface: Remarks on the Scenery of the Highlands', in Swan's Views of the Lakes of Scotland, (Glasgow: Joseph Swan, 1837), pp. i-ix.
20. William Scrope, The Art of Deer-Stalking, (London, John Murrray, 1838), pp. 363-371.
21. Adam and Charles Black, Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland (Edinburgh: Charles and Adam Black, 1851), pp. 373-380.
22. Alexander Fraser, The Life and Works of Horatio Macculloch, (Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1872), pp. 9-29, 38-39.
23. James Nasmyth and Samuel Smiles, LL.D. (ed), James Nasmyth, Engineer. An Autobiography (London: John Murray, 1883), pp. 35-42.
Part 4. Social History and Customs
24. John Gibson Lockhart, Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk (Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 3 vols. 1819), pp. 301-330.
25. D.K. Guthrie & C.J. Guthrie, Autobiography of Thomas Guthrie D.D. and Memoir, vol. 1 (London: W. Isbister 1874 2 vols), pp.33-36, 69-71, 137-142
26. John Grant The Penny Wedding (London: Grant and Co. 1836), pp. 1-32.
27. Hamilton Baird Timothy, 'The Penny Wedding', The Collected Poems of John Galt, 1779-1839 (London Ontario: no listed publisher, 1969 2 vols.), pp. 79-81.
28. W. McCombie, Cattle and Cattle-Breeders, (Edinburgh: Blackwood 1875), pp. 49-52
29. A.L. Simpson, Selections from the Works of George Harvey PRSA., (Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, n.d.).
30. Hugh Miller, My Schools and Schoolmasters. Or. The Story of My Education (Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo 1869. (12th edition)), pp. 303-310.
Part 5. Education and Exhibiting
31. 'View of the Arts of Design in Britain' in Edinburgh Annual Register for 1816 published in 1819. Reprinted in Scottish Art and National Encouragement: Containing a View of Existing Controversies, and Transactions during the last Twenty-Seven Years, Relative to Art in Scotland: With an Ample Appendix of Documents (Edinburgh & London. W. Blackwood and Sons), Appendix, pp. 1-4
32. Report from Mr. J. G. S. Lefevre to the Treasury, respecting the Erection of Galleries of Art at Edinburgh, 1850, pp. 4-13.
33. James Ballantine, The Life of David Roberts, R.A. Compiled from his Journals and Other Sources. (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black 1866), pp. 2-20.
34. 'Proposals to Art Training', W. Dyce letter to D. O. Hill, 15 December 1846.
35. R. Roundrobin, Letter to the Directors and members of the Institution for the promotion of the fine arts in Scotland (Edinburgh: W. Tait & A. Black 1826).
36. G. Harvey Notes of the Early History of the Royal Scottish Academy, (Edinburgh: Edmoston and Douglas 1870), pp. 1-24.
Part 6. Travel Beyond Scotland
37. William B. Scott, Memoir of David Scott, R.S.A: containing his journal in Italy, notes on art and other papers: With seven illustrations (Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1850), pp. 57-125
38. Anon. 'Dinner to William Allan Esq. RA ', The Scotsman 14 March 1838,
39. Allan Cunningham The Life of Sir David Wilkie. With His Journals, Tours, and Critical Remarks on Works of Art; And a Selection From His Correspondence, 3 vols. (London: John Murray 1843). vol.1, pp. 389-431.
40. Anon. 'The Fine Arts', National Advocate (New York n.d. [late 1817])
41. H. W. Williams, Travels in Italy Greece and the Ionian islands in a series of letter descriptive of the manners scenery and the fine arts by H. W. Williams Esq. 2 vols. (Edinburgh: A. Constable 1820), vol. 2, pp. 243-257, 316-323, 378-391.
42. James Ballantine, The Life of David Roberts, R.A. Compiled from his Journals and Other Sources. (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black 1866), pp. 80-143
43. Paper submitted by William Borthwick Johnstone to the RSA 1853.
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Index
