Lachin-y-Gair, Scotland - Steel Engraving by Finden after Robson - 1833

View of the valley of the Dee below the Lochnagar massif, with deer in the foreground. Steel engraving for "Lachin y Gair", the poem Lord Byron devoted to the mountain of his childhood. Signed in the image by Robson as draughtsman and by Finden as engraver.

From "Finden's Illustrations to the Life and Works of Lord Byron", published in London by John Murray between 1832 and 1834. George Fennel Robson (1788-1833) was a watercolorist who specialized in Highland landscape; Edward Francis Finden (1791-1857) ran with his brother William one of the busiest steel-engraving workshops in Romantic London.

Medium: Steel engraving
Artist / after: George Fennel Robson (1788-1833)
Engraver: Edward Francis Finden (1791-1857)
Date: c. 1832-1834
Source: "Illustrations to the Life and Works of Lord Byron", London
Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.8 in (20.7 x 14.7 cm)
Condition: Good. Slight creases and cockling in the margins and the occasional spot; the image is clean and the paper intact.