On offer: an original (i.e. not a later reproduction) antique print "Rumbling Bridge on the Bran (Braan).", Perthshire, Scotland.
DATE PRINTED: 1843
SIZE: The printed area including titles is approx 14.5 x 21 cm, 5.75 x 8.25 inches (medium) plus large margins.
ARTIST/CARTOGRAPHER/ENGRAVER: Engraved by John Smith from an original study by Andrew Donaldson (1790-1846). Andrew Donaldson was born in Belfast but his father took him to Glasgow at a very early age where he was employed in a cotton mill. After falling victim to an accident, he was allowed to follow his vocation and devote himself to art. With this aim in mind, he visited a large part of Great Britain. He mainly executed watercolours depicting villages, mills and picturesque scenes. Donaldson enjoyed a good reputation among Scottish landscape painters.
PROVENANCE: Published in "Perthshire Illustrated: A Series of Select Views of the Picturesque and Romantic Scenery, and Principal Mansions of Perthshire; With Historical and Descriptive Illustrations; and An Account of the Royal Progress Through the County in 1842", by William Jackson Hooker. Published by A. Fullarton,1843.
TYPE: Antique engraving printed on india paper.
VERSO: There is nothing printed on the reverse side, which is blank.
CONDITION: Good. Suitable for framing. Please check the scan for any blemishes prior to making your purchase. Virtually all antiquarian paper is subject to some normal ageing due to use and time which is not significant unless otherwise stated.
AUTHENTICITY: This is an authentic antique print, published at the date stated above. I do not offer reproductions. It is not a modern copy. The term 'original' when applied to a print means that it was printed at the first or original date of publication; it does not imply that the item is unique.
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The River Braan (Scottish Gaelic: Breamhainn) is a tributary of the River Tay in Scotland. Within the county of Perth and Kinross, it flows 11 miles (17 km) eastwards from Loch Freuchie, near Amulree, and joins the River Tay near Dunkeld. This old stone bridge spans the gorge high above the deep, rocky narrows and takes its name from the ferocious rumbling of the River Braan below. The eminent Victorian English painter, Sir John Everett Millais , one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, stayed at Rumbling Bridge Cottage in the 1870’s when he visited Perthshire on a hunting/fishing trip and two of his landscape pictures "The Sound of Many Waters" (1876) and "St Martin's Summer" (1877) were inspire by the River Braan. Queen Victoria had also been enthused when she visited the bridge in 1865 and wrote in her that the flow was `most splendid` and that `swollen by rain, it came down with an immense volume of water, with a deafening noise`.
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