Title
General View of Iona.
Publication details
[between about 1775-1790]
Physical details
1 drawing : pen and black ink with watercolour ; sheet 15.9 x 19 cm
Description
View of the ruined abbey and houses on the shore of Iona; water in the distance. Oval image within watercolour surround. Inscribed with title in black ink along lower edge outside image within mount. Inscribed '3 Vol. 877' in pencil in upper right-hand corner outside mount.
Place
Iona (Scotland)
Additional information
This work is one of a group in guard volume 49b in the King's Topographical Collection which are by the same hand. They depict the same scenes as in drawings by John Frederick Miller used for Thomas Pennant's 'A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides, 1772' and held in the Manuscripts Department at the British Library, AD Mss 15,509. The drawings in the King's Topographical Collection are on wove paper which suggests a slightly later date than 1772 and perhaps indicates they were made after the Miller set at AD Mss 15,509. The use of line and handling of the medium suggest that Miller, or an artist working closely with him, produced these drawings.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.49.37.2.a.