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Antique Map of Italy Drawn & Engraved by R. Scott for Thomsons, Edinburgh 1814
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This is a magnificent museum quality antique hand-coloured map of Italy, dating from 1814.
This historic and very rare antique map was drawn and engraved by R. Scott for Thomsons, New General Atlas, Edinburgh.
The map is very detailed and the various colours - yellow, grey and green - beautifully highlight the different natural and political divisions of Italy as it was before the Italian Unification which was completed in 1870.
The top right corner has a further small map of the Island of Elba which is accentuated in red.
This antique map is signed 'R. Scott Sculpt.' in the bottom right corner and is numbered '26'.
The map is very clean and is set in a beautiful ebonised and gilded frame.
Add this fascinating antique map to a special wall in your home and this historic fine art will decorate your wall for years to come.
Condition:
This antique map of Italy is in excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation of condition.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 77.5 x width 60 x depth 2
Dimensions in inches:
Height 30.5 x width 23.6 x depth 0.8
Robert Scott (13 November 1777–1841) was a Scottish engraver. The son of Grizell and Robert Scott, he was born on 13 November 1777 at Lanark, where his father was a skinner. He attended the grammar school at Musselburgh, and at the age of ten was articled to Andrew Robertson, an engraver at Edinburgh; there he also worked in the Trustees' Academy. Among his pupils were John Burnet, John Horsburgh, and James Stewart. He died early in 1841.
Scott first became known for some plates in James Anderson of Herminston's The Bee for 1793 and 1794, and a set of Views of Seats and Scenery chiefly in the Environs of Edinburgh, from drawings by Alexander Carse and Andrew Wilson, published in 1795 and 1796. He made the most of his abilities, and was known in his day for his small book illustrations; he carried on a manufactory in Parliament Stairs, Edinburgh, employing many assistants.
Scott's most significant work was in landscape. He engraved the illustrations to George Barry's History of the Orkney Islands, 1805, and to Scenery of Allan Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd, 1808; he also for many years contributed plates to the Scots Magazine, and put in the landscape backgrounds of some of those for John Bell's Poets of Great Britain.
He was employed by Henry Mozley, publisher at Gainsborough (the father of Thomas Mozley and James Bowling Mozley), for whose edition of James Thomson's The Seasons (1804), he engraved four plates after John Burnet. Scott's last work was a set of twenty views of ‘Scenery of Edinburgh and Midlothian,’ 1838, from drawings by his son, William Bell Scott. By his final years he had obtained a prestigious studio at 65 Princes Street and was living at 15 Lauriston Street in the Tollcross area of Edinburgh. Both buildings are now demolished.
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