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Scott's Poetical Works

Print
1841 (engraved)
Artist/Maker
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (artist)
W. Miller (engraver)
Place of origin
Britain (engraved)

Line engraving on steel, printed on paper, depicting the home of Sir Walter Scott in Scotland


Object details

Categories
Prints
Illustration
Scotland
Object type
Print
Titles
  • Scott's Poetical Works (series title)
  • Abbotsford (The Large Square Vignette) (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Line engraving
Paper
Line Engraving
Brief description
Line engraving on steel by W. Miller depicting Abbotsford, after a drawing by J. M. W. Turner for the Library edition of 'Scott's Poetical Works'. Great Britain, 1841.
Physical description
Line engraving on steel, printed on paper, depicting the home of Sir Walter Scott in Scotland
Credit line
Bequeathed by Horace Mummery
Places depicted
Scotland
Tweed
Abbotsford
Bibliographic reference
Abbotsford is the exclusive creation of Walter Scott. His ‘Conundrum Castle’ was where Scotland’s greatest son created a notion of Scotland that was more romantic perhaps, but also higher, more honourable, more noble, than it had been in the past, and in consequence raised Scotland’s reputation in the world. The Waverley Novels, as Scott’s 26 novels came to be called, were the world’s first real historical novels and the world’s first best-sellers. They paved the way for the great popular novels of the Victorian age, influenced Pushkin and Tolstoy as well as George Eliot and Dickens, and earned him the money to buy land, to plant trees and to build Abbotsford.
Other number
R569 - Rawlinson number (Mummery Bequest)
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.4533-1946

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O603637/scotts-poetical-works-print-turner-joseph-mallord/
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