Melrose Abbey, Scotland - Original Hand-Colored Engraving - D. Roberts 1836
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Original hand-colored engraving with the ruins of Melrose Abbey in Roxburghshire, Scotland, engraved by J. C. Bentley after an original drawing by David Roberts in 1836. Published in London by Simpkin & Marshall and T. W. Stevens.
Original hand-colored engraving with the ruins of Melrose Abbey in Roxburghshire, Scotland, engraved by J. C. Bentley after an original drawing by David Roberts in 1836. Published in London by Simpkin & Marshall and T. W. Stevens.
David Roberts (Edinburgh, 1796 - London, 1864), later celebrated for his views of Egypt and the Holy Land, drew many British monuments in the 1830s. The Cistercian abbey of Melrose, founded in 1136 and ruined in the border wars, is one of the most repeated motifs of Scottish Romanticism.
Medium: Steel engraving, hand-colored.
Artist / after: David Roberts.
Engraver: J. C. Bentley.
Date: 1836.
Source: London, Simpkin & Marshall and T. W. Stevens.
Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.9 in (26 x 20 cm).
Condition: Coloring well preserved; light foxing in the margins, outside the image.
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Original hand-colored engraving with the ruins of Melrose Abbey in Roxburghshire, Scotland, engraved by J. C. Bentley after an original drawing by David Roberts in 1836. Published in London by Simpkin & Marshall and T. W. Stevens.