Illustrating Scotland’s Antiquities

Images

Plate from Poems of Ossian, 1795 [National Library of Scotland Oss.34]

Plate from University of Glasgow, 1792 [Sp Coll Hunterian.H. 7.32]

Plate from John Stoddart, 1801 [Sp Coll BG52-d.4-5]

Plate from Combe, 1821, p. 160 [Sp Coll RQ 1264] 

References

Combe, W. 1821. The tour of Doctor Prosody: in search of the antique and picturesque, through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney and Shetland Isles. London: Matthew Iley, Somerset Street. University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections Sp Coll RQ 1264.

Cordiner, C. 1788-1795. Remarkable ruins, and romantic prospects of North Britain. With ancient monuments, and singular subjects of natural history. London. University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections BD5-d.13

Lowrey, J. 2001. From Caesarea to Athens. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 60(2). 136-157.

Macpherson, J, Poems of Ossian, son of Fingal. Perth: R Morison & Son, 1795. National Library of Scotland Oss.34

Naik, A. and Stewart, M. 2007. The Hellenization of Edinburgh: Cityscape, Architecture, and the Athenian Cast Collection. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 66(3). 366-389.

Pennant, T. 1774. A tour in Scotland and in the Hebrides. London. University of Glasgow Library, HA 04874.

Stoddart, J. 1801. Remarks on local scenery and manners in Scotland during the years 1799 and 1800. London : W Miller. University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections BG52-d.4-5

University of Glasgow. 1792. Monumenta Romani imperii, in Scotia, maxime vero inter vestigia valli, auspiciis Antonini Pii Imperatoris, a Fortha usque ad Glottam perducti, reperta, et in Academia Glasguensi adservata, iconibus expressa. Glasgow : University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections Hunterian.H. 7.28.