Title
[Durham].
Creator
Clerk, John, 1728-1812, printmaker.
Publication details
[Scotland] : [John Clerk of Eldin], [about 1773-1782]
Physical details
1 print : etching ; sheet 16.4 x 29.5 cm, on mount 25.2 x 37 cm.
Description
Inscribed 'No57' in the upper left-hand corner of the mount. A figure and cattle in a ploughed field in the foreground; trees in the middle ground; the city and cathedral of Durham on a hill at the centre of the scene.
Place
Durham (England)
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.