Scottish Art in the Industrial Age, 1800-1914 by Morrison, John;

Short 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. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students of Art History and Scottish History.

Long 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.

Table of 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