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Lot 490

RIDDELL (ROBERT ANDREW)
A set of twelve views of Scotland

16 – 31 August 2011, 11:00 BST
Edinburgh

£1,000 - £1,500

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RIDDELL (ROBERT ANDREW)

A set of twelve views of Scotland, engraved with aquatint by Archibald Robertson after Riddell, on wove paper, each mounted, framed and glazed, platemark 450 x 575mm., Published by Robert Andrew Riddell, 1795-1796 (12)

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Comprises: Loch Lomond (3 views); Rosedoe, on Loch Lomond; River Clyde; Castle Stalcher, the Island of Lismore & Mull, with the Hills of Morven, Sunart &c.; City of Edinburgh; Sweet Heart Abbey, in Galloway; Abbey Crag, on the River Forth near Stirling; Valley of Glencoe; View of Glencoe, from the Head of the Glen; Lochleven, in Argyle-shire.

Robert Burns was a neighbour and friend of the artist Robert Riddell whilst living at Ellisland, and is known to have had several Riddell prints as part of his furnishings at his house at Dumfries.

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