Copperplate

Argyleshire : 5 items
A. Hogg H. Boswell    The Antiquities of England and Wales c187-9
£9
18.5 x 14.5cm


Argyllshire - Dunstaffnage Castle. The Antiquities of England and Wales was the product of Alexander Hogg who was well known as a partwork publisher. Under the claimed authorship of Henry Boswell it was issued serially from c1787-9, and subsequently made available as a complete work. The format was typically 2 (though sometimes up to 6) prints to a page, with one or two accompanying pages of descriptive text on each pair of subjects. It also included the set of English county maps by Thomas Kitchin first used in the London Magazine from 1747-54. Dunstaffnage Castle stands in a strategic position on a promontary guarding the entrance to Loch Etive, and surrounded by sea on 3 sides. It was built around 1525-50 by Duncan MacDougall, Lord of Lorn, as his family seat.In 1309 the castle passed to the Crown after the MacDougalls defeat by Robert the Bruce during the Scottish wars of independence. In 1470 it was granted to Colin Campbell, Ist Earl of Argyll. Despite the addition of a new range 1725, the property gradually declined, and after a fire in 1810 it was abandoned. It passed to the state in 1958, and is today maintained by Historic Scotland with public access. This print, engraved by Eastgate, is supplied with the original, accompanying text.
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A. Hogg H. Boswell    The Antiquities of England and Wales c1787-9
£9
18.5 x 15cm


Argyllshire - The Monastery on the Isle of Oronsay. The Antiquities of England and Wales was the product of Alexander Hogg who was well known as a partwork publisher. Under the claimed authorship of Henry Boswell it was issued serially from c1787-9, and subsequently made available as a complete work. The format was typically 2 (though sometimes up to 6) prints to a page, with one or two accompanying pages of descriptive text on each pair of subjects. It also included the set of English county maps by Thomas Kitchin first used in the London Magazine from 1747-54. Oronsay Priory was a house of Augustinian canons regular, founded by John of Islay, Lord of the Isles between 1325 and 1353. It was dissolved during the Scottish Reformation around 1560, but its buildings were not demolished, and were kept in reasonable repair by the local MacNeill family for some 200 years. Today's remains are therefore well preserved. Ths print, engraved by Eastgate, is supplied with the original, accompanying text.
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A. Hogg H. Boswell    The Antiquities of England and Wales c1787-9
£8
18.5 x 14.5cm


Argyllshire - Iona Cathedral. The Antiquities of England and Wales was the product of Alexander Hogg who was well known as a partwork publisher. Under the claimed authorship of Henry Boswell it was issued serially from c1787-9, and subsequently made available as a complete work. The format was typically 2 (though sometimes up to 6) prints to a page, with one or two accompanying pages of descriptive text on each pair of subjects. It also included the set of English county maps by Thomas Kitchin first used in the London Magazine from 1747-54. In 563 AD St. Columba arrived on the island of Iona to found the monastery which encouraged the spread of Christianity in Scotland. Viking raids in the 9th century, destroyed this foundation and massacred or dispersed the monks, but the site probably survived as a focus of Christian worship. The construction of a new Abbey began in the mid 12th century, and got seriously underway in the 13th when the Benedictine order built both a new monasery and a nunnery on the island. These were abandoned after the Scottsh Reformation of the 1560's, and fell into disrepair, but following the gifting of the site to the Church of Scotland in 1899, the Abbey was substantially rebuilt, and is run by the Iona Community, a Christian ecumenical movement. This print was engraved by Eastgate.
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A. Hogg H. Boswell    The Antiquities of England and Wales c1787-9
£10
17 x 28.5cm


Argyllshire - Inverary Castle & Old Argyle House. The Antiquities of England and Wales was the product of Alexander Hogg who was well known as a partwork publisher. Under the claimed authorship of Henry Boswell it was issued serially from c1787-9, and subsequently made available as a complete work. The format was typically 2 (though sometimes up to 6) prints to a page, with one or two accompanying pages of descriptive text on each pair of subjects. It also included the set of English county maps by Thomas Kitchin first used in the London Magazine from 1747-54. Inverary Castle, the seat of the Duke of Argyll, is located on the shores of Loch Fyne. The site has been occupied since the 14th century, but the present house dates mostly from the mid 18th century. A third floor was daaed to the castle after a fire of 1877. It remains a private residence. Old Argyle House is an historic 17th century house on the shores of Holy Loch, in the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park. It is today let out for holiday rentals. This anonymous print offers 2 views on 1 sheet, and is supplied with the original, accompanying text.
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A. Hogg H. Boswell    The Antiquities of England and Wales c1787-9
£8
15 x 10.5cm


Argyllshgire - Fingal's Cave, Staffa. The Antiquities of England and Wales was the product of Alexander Hogg who was well known as a partwork publisher. Under the claimed authorship of Henry Boswell it was issued serially from c1787-9, and subsequently made available as a complete work. The format was typically 2 (though sometimes up to 6) prints to a page, with one or two accompanying pages of descriptive text on each pair of subjects. It also included the set of English county maps by Thomas Kitchin first used in the London Magazine from 1747-54. Fingal's Cave is a large cave on the Hebridean island os Staffa, noted for its rock formations of hexagonal, basalt columns. The site shares this geological peculiarity with the Giants Causeway on the Antrim coast of Northern Ireland, and the two are linked by legend. Finn MacCool was reutedly an Irish giant, who was challenged to a fight by the Scottish giant Benandonner. Finn constructed a causeway across the Irish Sea so they could meet. This was subsequently destroyed, though its remains survive on the coasts at both ends. The legend was used for an epic 17th century poem by James Macpherson.
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