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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.

Table of Contents

Volume 1AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsGeneral Introduction Volume 1 IntroductionPart 1. National Identity 1. John Pinkerton An Enquiry into the History of Scotland Preceding the Reign of Malcolm III or the year 10562. Patrick Fraser Tytler, History of Scotland,3. Jane Porter, The Scottish Chiefs4. Blind Harry, The Battle of Biggar5. James Melville, Memoirs of His Own Life6. James Kirkton, The Secret and true History of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the year 16787. Thomas McCrie, The Works of Thomas McCriePart 2. Sir Walter Scott and Highlandism 8. Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel9. Elizabeth Grant, Memoirs of a Highland Lady10. Anon, Art XI. Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since'11. Robert Mudie, A Historical Account of His Majesty's Visit to Scotland12. John MacCulloch, The Highlands and Western Scenery of Scotland ….. in letters to Walter Scott13. William Hazlitt, Sir Walter Scott14. 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 ScottPart 3. Romanticism and Scottish Landscape 15. David Dreadnought, Report on the Landscape Department16. Dorothy Wordsworth, Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland in 180317. Charles Cordiner, The Greenloch in Glen-more18. 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 years19. Joseph Swan and John M Leighton, Preface: Remarks on the Scenery of the Highlands20. William Scrope, The Art of Deer-Stalking21. Adam and Charles Black, Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland22. Alexander Fraser, The Life and Works of Horatio Macculloch23. James Nasmyth and Samuel Smiles, James Nasmyth, Engineer. An AutobiographyPart 4. Social History and Customs 24. John Gibson Lockhart, Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk25. D.K. Guthrie and C.J. Guthrie, Autobiography of Thomas Guthrie D.D. and Memoir26. John Grant, The Penny Wedding27. Hamilton Baird Timothy, The Penny Wedding28. W. McCombie, Cattle and Cattle-Breeders29. A.L. Simpson, Selections from the Works of George Harvey PRSA30. Hugh Miller, My Schools and Schoolmasters. Or. The Story of My EducationPart 5. Education and Exhibiting 31. View of the Arts of Design in Britain32. Report from Mr. J. G. S. Lefevre to the Treasury, respecting the Erection of Galleries of Art at Edinburgh33. James Ballantine, The Life of David Roberts, R.A. Compiled from his Journals and Other Sources34. Proposals to Art Training, W. Dyce letter to D. O. Hill, 15 December 184635. R. Roundrobin, Letter to the Directors and members of the Institution for the promotion of the fine arts in Scotland36. G. Harvey Notes of the Early History of the Royal Scottish AcademyPart 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 papers38. Anon, Dinner to William Allan Esq. RA39. Allan Cunningham The Life of Sir David Wilkie. With His Journals, Tours, and Critical Remarks on Works of Art; And a Selection From His Correspondence40. Anon, The Fine Arts41. 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 Esq42. James Ballantine, The Life of David Roberts, R.A. Compiled from his Journals and Other Sources43. Paper submitted by William Borthwick Johnstone to the RSA 1853.IllustrationsVolume I BibliographyIndex

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