The Tweed: The Eildon Hills

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-284

Artist: Slocombe, Edward

Date: 1880 (Approx.)

State: 1/1

Size: 23.2 x 17.8 cm

Medium: Etching

Details Etching. All the Slocombe’s etchings are brown ink on wove, or possibly India, paper.The mount states all 12 belong to the 12 part series titled Rivers of the East Coast. Only 200 sets were published.

Signed artist’s proof; bottom left in graphite ‘Edward Slocombe’.

Description The River Tweed rises just north of Moffat and flows for 97 miles before reaching the North Sea at Berwick-upon-Tweed. The Eildon Hills are a series of three steep peaks and lie just south of the town of Melrose. Sir Walter Scott’s home, Abbotsford, is located nearby.
References
  1. Rodney K. Engen, Dictionary of Victorian Engravers, Print Publishers and Their Works. Cambridge, Chadwyck-Heley, 1979
  2. Kenneth M. Guichard, British Etchers 1850-1940. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1977