Vallée de Glenfinlas (Glenfinlas Valley)
Scottish lords in a hunting party move through a mountain valley. The image echoes a ballad by Sir Walter Scott that laments the death of chief Ronald and tells how he left the group with his hounds to tryst with a sweetheart, then encounters her ghost. The work comes from a series of lithographs Bonington made in 1826 after drawings by Pernot titled "Picturesque Views in Scotland."
Artwork Details
- Title: Vallée de Glenfinlas (Glenfinlas Valley)
- Series/Portfolio: Vues Pittoresques de l'Écosse
- Artist: Richard Parkes Bonington (British, Arnold, Nottinghamshire 1802–1828 London)
- Artist: After François-Alexandre Pernot (French, Wassy 1793–1865 Wassy)
- Printer: Villain (French, active 1819–53)
- Date: 1826
- Medium: Lithograph on chine collé; first state of four
- Dimensions: Image: 6 1/4 × 8 3/4 in. (15.9 × 22.2 cm)
Sheet: 9 13/16 × 12 11/16 in. (24.9 × 32.2 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923
- Object Number: 23.21.3
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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