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CLARK, [John Heaviside] (1771-1836)
[Views in Scotland drawn on the spot by I. Clark London, Smith and Elder, 1824]
A fine collection of views of Scottish towns and cities, with the original watercolour for St Andrews. ‘One of the rarest colour plate books’ (Tooley). Abbey notes ‘The imprints on the plates suggest that the book appeared in several parts; publication probably ceased before a general title was issued. A thirty-sixth plate, ‘Town of Tain’, was published by Smith, Elder, & Co. in 1828, three years later than the others’. The present volume with 35 plates, contains 32 of the 35 plates listed by Abbey and Tooley (without Dumfries, Kirkcudbright and Banff), but with 3 additional plates: ‘Town of Tain’, 1828, noted by Abbey; ‘Aberdeen from the South’ by I. Clark after Geo. Smith, undated; and ‘Forres from the South East’ by I. Clark after Geo. Carnaby published by G. Carnaby, Forres, 1823; this latter plate may have been a prototype for the present work. Clark was a Scottish aquatint engraver and painter who exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1801 and 1832. He was also the author of A Practical Essay on the Art of Colouring and Painting Landscape (1807). Bobins IV, 1425; Abbey, Scenery 489 (noting the 36th plate ‘Town of Tain); and Tooley 137.
Large folio (685 x 500mm). original watercolour for the plate ‘Town of St Andrews’, and 35 hand-coloured aquatint plates (without title, index leaf, and plates of Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, and Banff, as called for in Abbey and Tooley, but with 3 additional plates, including Town of Tain, see note; plate of Tain trimmed within plate mark, not affecting caption or image, and mounted on thick paper). Modern antique-style blue half morocco gilt, marbled boards, upper cover with blue morocco label richly tooled in gilt.
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