Full Description
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
Volume 1 Introduction
Part 1. National Identity
1. John Pinkerton An Enquiry into the History of Scotland Preceding the Reign of Malcolm III or the year 1056
2. Patrick Fraser Tytler, History of Scotland,
3. Jane Porter, The Scottish Chiefs
4. Blind Harry, The Battle of Biggar
5. James Melville, Memoirs of His Own Life
6. James Kirkton, The Secret and true History of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the year 1678
7. Thomas McCrie, The Works of Thomas McCrie
Part 2. Sir Walter Scott and Highlandism
8. Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel
9. Elizabeth Grant, Memoirs of a Highland Lady
10. Anon, Art XI. Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since'
11. Robert Mudie, A Historical Account of His Majesty's Visit to Scotland
12. John MacCulloch, The Highlands and Western Scenery of Scotland ..... in letters to Walter Scott
13. William Hazlitt, Sir Walter Scott
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
Part 3. Romanticism and Scottish Landscape
15. David Dreadnought, Report on the Landscape Department
16. Dorothy Wordsworth, Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland in 1803
17. Charles Cordiner, The Greenloch in Glen-more
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
19. Joseph Swan and John M Leighton, Preface: Remarks on the Scenery of the Highlands
20. William Scrope, The Art of Deer-Stalking
21. Adam and Charles Black, Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland
22. Alexander Fraser, The Life and Works of Horatio Macculloch
23. James Nasmyth and Samuel Smiles, James Nasmyth, Engineer. An Autobiography
Part 4. Social History and Customs
24. John Gibson Lockhart, Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk
25. D.K. Guthrie and C.J. Guthrie, Autobiography of Thomas Guthrie D.D. and Memoir
26. John Grant, The Penny Wedding
27. Hamilton Baird Timothy, The Penny Wedding
28. W. McCombie, Cattle and Cattle-Breeders
29. A.L. Simpson, Selections from the Works of George Harvey PRSA
30. Hugh Miller, My Schools and Schoolmasters. Or. The Story of My Education
Part 5. Education and Exhibiting
31. View of the Arts of Design in Britain
32. Report from Mr. J. G. S. Lefevre to the Treasury, respecting the Erection of Galleries of Art at Edinburgh
33. James Ballantine, The Life of David Roberts, R.A. Compiled from his Journals and Other Sources
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
36. G. Harvey Notes of the Early History of the Royal Scottish Academy
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
38. Anon, Dinner to William Allan Esq. RA
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
40. Anon, The Fine Arts
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
42. James Ballantine, The Life of David Roberts, R.A. Compiled from his Journals and Other Sources
43. Paper submitted by William Borthwick Johnstone to the RSA 1853.
Illustrations
Volume I Bibliography
Index
