Title
Dumfries from the Dock. / JE.
Creator
Clerk, John, 1728-1812, printmaker.
Publication details
[Scotland] : [John Clerk of Eldin], 1777.
Physical details
1 print : etching with monochrome wash ; sheet 7.5 x 20.3 cm, on mount 16 x 27.6 cm.
Description
Inscribed 'N42 in the upper left-hand corner of the mount. Figures fishing and standing by the docks on the River Nith; Dumfries on the right-hand side; a bridge on the left in the distance. Inscribed in brown ink 'The Town of Dumfries from the South' in the lower left-hand corner of mount. Hand-tinted by Robert Adam.
Place
Dumfries (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.