Title
[Clackmannan Tower from the south west].
Creator
Clerk, John, 1728-1812, printmaker.
Publication details
[Scotland] : [John Clerk of Eldin], [1775]
Physical details
1 print : etching ; sheet 3.3 x 7.8 cm, on mount 14.2 x 19.6 cm.
Description
Inscribed 'No37' in the upper left-hand corner of the mount. Three travellers on a road in the foreground; fields and trees in the middle ground; Clackmannan Castle on a hill in the distance. Cut so that title and date are missing.
Place
Clackmannanshire (Scotland)
Additional information
With a description of the scene on the facing page in brown ink. Donated to George III in 1786. Part of a volume of prints and drawings by John Clerk of Eldin together with manuscript descriptions for each and a letter to George III by David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan. Some of the etchings were hand-tinted by Robert Adam.
Other persons
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792.
Shelfmark
191.g.6.